The Thinking Stage (up to 14 years approx.)
It’s time to start thinking about your move to adult health care services, but where to start?
This stage is about introducing you and your parents to the idea of transition. During this time, you should start to learn more about your condition and begin to start taking a little more responsibility for your health care. During this stage, you might begin to pay more attention to your health care routines. You could also consider the questions you would like to ask at your hospital or clinic visits. Your parent(s)/guardian(s) will be of support to you during this stage.
Top tips
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:
