Who can Benefit from Pediatric Supportive Care?

Children and families who are affected by illness or conditions that limit life expectancy, such as:
	Neurodegenerative disorders
	Severe metabolic or genetic diseases
	End-stage cancers
	AIDS
	Severe neuromuscular diseases
	Inoperable cardiac defects
	Severe congenital anomalies
	Sever multi-system disorders

How is Kangaroo Kids Different from Traditional Home Care?

Most of the time, pediatric care providers offer a limited range of services. Kangaroo Kids is a total medical, spiritual, emotional, physical and social approach that focuses on caring for the entire family. Parents. Siblings. Grandparents. Everyone in the family is taken care of with an individualized approach offering what each person needs.

Kangaroo Kids professionals are a team specially trained to address the variety of issues children and families experience in the course of the day.

Who is on the Team?
	Children and their families
	Pediatric supportive care physicians
	Child's own physician
	Child-centered nurses
	Child-and-family-focused social workers
	Chaplains

How is Pediatric Support Care Different from Hospic?
	You don't need to choose to stop treatment measures for the child
	The child can get care at any point in his or her illness