Klaus Wegleitner

As an Associate Professor (Public Health & End-of-Life-Care) he is Vice Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC), head of the working area “Public Care” at the Institute of Pastoral Theology at the University of Graz (Austria) and chairperson of “SORGENETZ - Association for the promotion of societal care culture. Life, old age, dementia and dying” in Vienna. His research interests are addressing the need for developing and transforming health care systems and societal care networks in elderly and End-of-life care, interlinking palliative care and public health perspectives, care ethics, questions about social justice and the democratization of care. A major aspect of his research and consulting is to promote and develop Caring/Compassionate Organizations and Communities.