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Follow-up care project of the parents' aid for children with cancer in Leipzig

 Follow-up care project of the parents' aid for children with cancer in Leipzig

With its ambulant psycho-social follow-up care, the parents' aid for children suffering from cancer in Leipzig supports young patients, their brothers and sisters and the whole family on their way in a changed daily life. After a often long time of heavy sickness and intensive therapy of the child, the way often is not easy to make and new questions or problems arise. Here exists a psycho-social care offer for all affected people: the ambulant psycho-social follow-up care as a helpdesk by the parents' aid in Leipzig. A high number of care possibilities are offered and, if needed, other help close to the home is communicated. During and after the therapy as an inpatient, families get the possibility to communicate where support is needed. One of the main topics is the reintegration of the children in kindergartens or schools. Sometimes, intensive awareness training is needed here, in order to balance disadvantages for the child due to their disease and therapy. For their school career, psychological diagnostics or counselling interviews at the schools are often necessary. For this important work, the parents' aid in Leipzig needs urgent financial support in order to hire a children's psychologist, as the current care concept has to be enlarged and offered in a long term.