Young people: lost in transition

Transition: getting it right for young people.

irrespective of the presence or absence of chronic illness and/or disability. All young people will hopefully make the transition from childhood to adulthood and, along the way, move from the family home to live independently, from school to further education and/or training and/or work, and from paediatric to adult services including healthcare. Many young people make these transitions success...

Lost in transition at discharge.

No longer lost in transition.

1Agency for Integrated Care Pte Ltd Address for Correspondence: Dr Dennis Chia Bingzhu, Agency for Integrated Care, 5 Maxwell Road, #10-00 Tower Block, MND complex, Singapore 069110. Email: [email protected] The Need for Transitional Care Over the past three decades, Singapore’s healthcare system has evolved into one that comprises some 35 specialties which has helped to better manage th...

Symposium 6: Young people, artificial nutrition and transitional care. Transition in young people on home parenteral nutrition.

Pharmacological, surgical and technological advances have resulted in children now surviving through adolescence into adulthood with conditions that were previously unseen by adult services. Arranging transition for young people on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) to the adult sector is one of greatest challenges for health services that care for young people. Transition is not only a key qualit...

VPS35 leaves endosomes lost in transition

VPS35 leaves endosomes lost in transition S luggish recycling of a protein-slicing enzyme could promote Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Wen et al. show. A , the protein that accumulates in the brains of AD patients, is formed when enzymes cut up its parental protein, known as amyloid precursor protein. One of those enzymes is -secretase or BACE1. BACE1 cycles between the Golgi apparatus and the plasm...