Thinking About Transition Top Tips

It’s time to start thinking about your transition to adult health care services, but where to start?

Top Tips

  • Try to learn more about your condition, medication and treatments.
  • Think about questions you might like to ask at your hospital or clinic visits.
  • Use your phone to set reminders about hospital appointments and taking your medication/treatments.
  • It is worthwhile thinking about how exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle decisions affect your medical condition.
  • Talk to your parents/guardians about your medical history – this will help when you are older and you have to answer your healthcare teams questions. questions.

Thinking About Transition Top Tips

It’s time to start thinking about your transition to adult health care services, but where to start?

Top Tips

  • Try to learn more about your condition, medication and treatments.
  • Think about questions you might like to ask at your hospital or clinic visits.
  • Use your phone to set reminders about hospital appointments and taking your medication/treatments.
  • It is worthwhile thinking about how exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle decisions affect your medical condition.
  • Talk to your parents/guardians about your medical history – this will help when you are older and you have to answer your healthcare teams questions. questions.

The Transition Steps…

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:

Thinking about transition
Planning your transition
Making the transition

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:

Thinking about transition
Planning your transition
Making the transition