Articles about palliative care

Lost in transition – why we need special palliative care for teenagers and young adults

There is so much discussion and focus on transition from children’s to adult services at present, which is great, but in many areas of the UK there are not age-appropriate services available to care for these young adults

June 27, 2014, 11:30 2713
Are Older Children with Severe Developmental Disabilities to be Discharged to Die?

Due to the lack of children's hospice unit the seriously ill children from the "Solnyshko" orphanage are transferred to children's homes where financing per child is half as much and qualified medical staff is not available

June 4, 2014, 16:30 4431
Why do we need to help those who can no longer be helped?

I work with children who can not be cured. I sit at night on the weekend and I write because I'm scared, all of a sudden someone really might wonder - if a child can not be cured, it can not be helped?

February 20, 2014, 12:50 2394
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Happy Child foundation - effective help to the most needy children of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine

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Yaroslav Obertinsky
Yaroslav Obertinsky

Congenital brain development anomalies

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Oleksii Velkyi
Oleksii Velkyi

Cerebral palsy

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Mylana Shcherbyna
Mylana Shcherbyna

Epidermolysis bullosa, dystrophic form; chronic anemia

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