PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 3 March 1986, pp. A106
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WHAT HELEN HOUSE IS ABOUT

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Perhaps several things need to be stressed in order to correct any wrong impressions [about Helen House, Britain's hospice for children]:

1. Our children belong at home with their families and just come to stay in Helen House from time to time. Families are welcome to come too.

2. Although most of our children do have a life-threatening illness of one kind or another, many of them have months and years of LIFE in front of them and we want to help them and their families to live life as fully and as happily as they can.

3. The strain and the loneliness for our families can be very great. We do not offer anything complex or sophisticated but try to be sensitive in responding to the very different individual needs of each family by giving support, using practical skills, and sharing a very ordinary kind of friendship.

4. Many of our children may only spend a few nights a year in Helen House itself, but through frequent telephone calls, letters or home visits we and they feel we share a very close friendship. For some perhaps we are able to take the place of the extended family so rarely in evidence now in our society.