Transition

Background: Service providers face difficult decisions about how best to develop services for the increasing numbers of young people with life-limiting conditions who require palliative care.

Objective: To explore alternative short break and emergency respite care options to children's hospice care.

Methods: A two-phase evaluation with young people, families and professionals.

Objectives: The transition from hospital to home is a period of risk, particularly for children with medical complexity. Our aim was to identify and address discharge challenges through execution of postdischarge phone calls.

In 2006, WellChild instigated its WellChild Children's Nurse programme, which provides practical and emotional support to children with exceptional health needs and their families, enabling children to leave hospital and be cared for at home wherever possible. Some sit within community children's nursing teams, but all liaise with hospital and community colleagues, often spanning several teams within a region as well as other specialist nurses, such as palliative and learning disability nurses.

Residential treatment (RT) provides a secure setting where youth with moderate to severe emotional and behavioral disorders reside long-term to receive treatment and care. The purpose of this study was to explore caregivers' perceptions of their child's immediate transition home following residential treatment. Ten mothers of youth discharged from RT participated in a semi-structured interview approximately 4 weeks after discharge from RT in Ontario, Canada.

Respite care is one integral component of the transition process from paediatric to adult health care, and is of particular importance to individuals with medical complexities. Numerous gaps that exist within the current system limit a child and family's ability to access quality respite care during a time when it is often most needed. Identifying and addressing these gaps in a systematic and collaborative way presents an opportunity to improve the quality of life for this vulnerable, ever growing population and their families.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to understand facilitators of and barriers to achieving positive transition results among youth with spinal cord injury (SCI), and to identify areas for intervention to improve transition outcomes.

Aims and objectives: To report parent and professional perspectives of step-down care in assisting the transition from hospital to home, within one children's hospice in a constituent country of the United Kingdom.

Background: In recent years, increasing numbers of children-dependent on long term assisted ventilation have been noted. Meeting the complex physical, emotional and social needs of the child and family is challenging. Many of these children spend extended periods in hospital even when medically stable.

Social care policy in the UK emphasises the importance of supporting young adult carers to make positive transitions to adulthood. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study which explored whether young adult carers' services in England are facilitating transitions. The research found that young adult carers' services were endeavouring to raise young adult carers' aspirations and achieve personalised outcomes, in line with the Care Act 2014. However, formal provision for young adult carers in England, in the main, designates them as adult carers.

This quality improvement project aimed to identify barriers and opportunities for successful transition from pediatric to adult health care for a clinic sample of youth with spina bifida. Pediatric patients (N = 16) with spina bifida between the ages of 14 and 21 years and a family member were recruited from the Spina Bifida Clinic at a large regional medical center to participate in a face-to-face semi-structured interview.

Objectives: To explore parents’ experiences of transition and aftercare following their child’s discharge from a paediatric intensive care unit to an in-patient ward.