Informations sur le média
- Type de média : revue
- Titre : Transition : From Child to Adult Health Care Services
- Editeur : aucun - s.l.
- Date de parution : 1996
- Nombre de pages : 16
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Description du média
Description :
We know that the life expectancy of youth with disabilities has increased dramatically in the last 20 years. We also now families expect their children with special needs to be fully included into commuity life. The National Center for Youth with Disabilities (NCYD) has documented many of the needs of these youth and their families. NCYD has researched and explored ways in which teachers, social workers and counselors, health care providers, advocates and parents can provide opportunities for youth with chronic conditions to grow trought adolescence into adulthood.Likewise, the Center for Children with Chronic Illness and Disability is indentifying the factors that make a difference in the lives of young people with disabilities in the Unites States.
Still, many youth with disabilities lack basic information on how to move from pediatric-based health care into the adult system. The are few descriptions of transition programs or models in the medical and health care literature. This is ironic because, as lifelong consumers of healt care, these youth know the difference between sickness and health. They know they are healthy much of the time.
They know, most often, their disabilities and chronic conditions do not require healt care. They know their conditions defy cure. Making the accomodations that allow kids to live and thrive rather than treating them as sik or incomplete is both rewarding and cost-effective.
Recently, NCYD undertook a survey to identify health transition programs. This monograph reports the findings of the survey by detailing information on programs that help adolescents move from pediatric to adult-focused health care.