| Transition of young adults with juvenile rheumatoid diseases at the example of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2005) | |||||||||||||
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| juvenile rheumatic diseases can often become quiescence during childhood or adolescence. The small number of adult rheumatic patients requiring rheumatologic care needs their own program for transition, which must consider the course of juvenile rheumatic diseases as well as the social situation of young rheumatic patients. Apart from an adequate medical and physiotherapeutic treatment, we require an experienced psychosocial staff that helps with vocational integration and guide the patients towards their new life style. Transition begins in pediatric and adolescent rheumatology and ideally integrates the adult rheumatologist. In addition to our established program for transition, we will concentrate the care for young adult patients on own ward and expand our cooperation with the adult Rheumatology Center in Oberammergau. | |||||||||||||
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