Who is eligible for pediatric hospice?

Who is eligible for pediatric hospice?

David Kessler (Director of Palliative Care, Citrus Valley Health Partners and Hospice) gives expert video advice on: Who is eligible for pediatric hospice?; How do I find a qualified pediatric hospice?; What treatments does pediatric hospice offer to children? and more...

Any child is eligible for pediatric hospice if they are diagnosed with a terminal illness. It's important to stress that while people go on hospice, many times they go off. So just know that it's not a one-way street: that if a child goes on hospice for a while, children have a way of sometimes rebounding. We take kids off hospice many times while they're doing better for a while. So hospice will really customise the pediatric care.