Planning Your Transition Top Tips
It’s time to plan your move to adult health care services, here’s some tips to help you.
Top Tips
- It is helpful to start taking more responsibility for your own medication and treatments. Know when and how much to take.
- It can seem daunting but you should begin to think about seeing your doctor or other health care professionals by yourself.
- Try to learn more about your condition and treatments and consider talking to others about them.
- It would be useful to start planning your ‘move’ to adult health care. Ask your parents/guardians and your team about it – ask questions and express your concerns.
- Consider finding out the main differences between child and adult health care services – this way you will know what to expect when you move.
- Try to understand more about the impact of nutrition, exercise, alcohol and drugs on your overall health.
Planning Your Transition Top Tips
It’s time to plan your move to adult health care services, here’s some tips to help you.
Top Tips
- It is helpful to start taking more responsibility for your own medication and treatments. Know when and how much to take.
- It can seem daunting but you should begin to think about seeing your doctor or other health care professionals by yourself.
- Try to learn more about your condition and treatments and consider talking to others about them.
- It would be useful to start planning your ‘move’ to adult health care. Ask your parents/guardians and your team about it – ask questions and express your concerns.
- Consider finding out the main differences between child and adult health care services – this way you will know what to expect when you move.
- Try to understand more about the impact of nutrition, exercise, alcohol and drugs on your overall health.
Reading the material on this website and listening to or reading the ‘transition stories’ will help prepare you for transition.
In this way, you will gain more information and confidence that will support you through the process. The important thing is that you will see that you are not alone. Your parent(s)/guardian(s) and health care team are there to support you and help you to manage the move to adult services. There is no single transition process or programme in Ireland but it is helpful to think of the process as including the following three stages:
Reading the material on this website and listening to or reading the ‘transition stories’ will help prepare you in some way for transition.
In this way, you will gain more information and confidence that will support you through the process. The important thing is that you will see that you are not alone.
Your parent(s)/guardian(s) and health care team are there to support you and help you to manage the move to adult services. There is no single transition process or programme in Ireland but it is helpful to think of the process as including the following three stages:
