The care and therapy services at the Flamingo Children’s Hospice are carefully tailored to the needs of the sick children and their families. Various therapies and the professional Paediatric palliative care (PPC) is applied in a comprehensive concept by a multi-professional team.

Paediatric palliative care

Paediatric palliative care is provided by specifically trained nursing staff. The focus is on the well-being and health of the children concerned. The nursing team will embrace and care for children with life-limiting illnesses and their families in various life situations at the children’s hospice:

• registered through the paediatric clinics
• from home, for paediatric palliative transitional care
• from home, in the end-of-life phase
• 24/7 paediatric palliative transitional care, directly after discharge from the children’s hospital
• when care is temporarily not provided by outpatient services
• when caring relatives take a “carer’s leave for relatives” in or outside the children’s hospice

Medical care

Most of the children afflicted are registered with a specialist doctor providing care and are already involved in paediatric palliative outpatient care. This medical care is continued at the Flamingo Children’s Hospice. If an afflicted child does not have a PPC care team, one will be set up by the Flamingo Children’s Hospice.

Medical questions are usually clarified with this medical team. he Flamingo Children’s Hospice team plays a supporting role and works together with these doctors.

For acute questions and problems, the children’s hospice provides a quickly available paediatric palliative care specialist and a 24/7 specialist background service.

Therapies

The holistic approach of paediatric palliative care includes not only nursing and medical care, but also various therapies. At the beginning of a stay at the Flamingo Children’s Hospice, the needs and wishes are discussed in detail with the families.

A paediatric physiotherapy specialist will be available daily to ensure the children’s well-being. ther therapies are offered according to need and possibility. These include, among others:

• remedial education
• psychotherapy
• occupational therapy
• music therapy
• art therapy
• painting therapy
• animal-assisted therapy