Pediatric Palliative Care Knowledge Center

Pediatric Palliative Care Knowledge Center

When a child is seriously ill, you face many challenges. Questions about care, support, choices, and what this means for daily life. Perhaps you're looking for guidance, or perhaps concrete information to help you move forward. Here you'll find reliable knowledge, practical explanations, and relatable support regarding pediatric palliative care, for both families and healthcare professionals.

For parents, this is a place to relax and explore what's possible: from explanations and support to information about rights, choices, and conversations with healthcare providers. For healthcare professionals, you'll find up-to-date knowledge, guidelines, tools, and training to support your work and address complex questions.

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Pediatric Palliative Care Knowledge Center

What is pediatric palliative care?

Pediatric palliative care is available for children with a serious, life-threatening, or life-shortening condition and for those around them. These include parents and caregivers, siblings, and other loved ones who are important in the child's life. The care focuses on quality of life: alleviating symptoms, addressing emotions and meaning, and supporting the entire family. This often begins at diagnosis and continues for as long as needed.

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Parents' experiences

"My greatest fear is that my daughter cannot die comfortably."

Help other parents, share your experience!

Your experience shows us what's going well and what could be improved, both at home and in the hospital. This way, you contribute to improving pediatric palliative care.

The NIK will help you further

Good pediatric palliative care requires coordination and collaboration. The Integrated Child Care Network (NIK) connects healthcare providers in the region and helps to better coordinate care for children and families. This way, expertise is shared and it's clear where you can go, close to home and tailored to your situation.


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