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In an effort to improve accessibility of care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health recently released Getting the Care You Need: A Guide for People with Disabilities. It describes health care best practices, legal protections, and appointment checklists for individuals with disabilities. The guide is currently available in eight languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese, as well as Braille. Get the Guide here |
WHAT IS HEALTH CARE TRANSITION? Health care transition (HCT) is the process of getting your youth ready for health care as an adult. During childhood, we usually help with health and health care needs—calling to set up appointments, filling out forms, and keeping track of medications. As our youth gets older, managing those needs becomes their own responsibility. Achieving this independence requires an organized transition process for them to gain independent health care skills, prepare for an adult model of care, and transfer to new clinicians. |
Got Transition and its National Family Health Care Transition Advisory Group have developed a new toolkit for families to use to guide their youth’s transition from pediatric to adult health care and help them assume more independence in taking care of their own health and using health services. The Family Toolkit includes easy-to-use resources for youth and families, including a transition timeline, questions to ask your doctor, what turning 18 means for one’s health, and more.
Got Transition has a Health Care Transition Quiz for parents/caregivers to find out how ready their child is to transition to adult care. The quiz asks key questions to help families prepare for changes that happen between ages 18 and 22. The quiz includes tips and linked resources to support parents/caregivers in becoming advocates for their child. The resources include information on how to add medical information to a smartphone, what legal changes occur at age 18, how to sign up for health insurance, and more. Visit: www.gottransition.org/parents-caregivers/hct-quiz.cfm |
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