Top-down and bottom-up or participation through action? How to build a compassionate community - the experience of Caring Community Cologne

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, Cologne D-50937, Germany.
• ² Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf (CIO ABCD), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ³ Center for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁵ Caring Community Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁶ 'Endlich. Palliativ & Hospiz' Association, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁷ Division of Health Planning and Promotion, Public Health Department Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁸ Institute of Pastoral Theology and Psychology, University of Graz, Austria.