Health care services for adults with cerebral palsy.
This article summarises changes in treatments for children with CP over the past 2 decades and the implications for adult health care services. A multidisciplinary clinic for adults with CP at a tertiary adult teaching hospital in Sydney (New South Wales) is described. DISCUSSION: Over the past 2 decades, interventions such as botulinum toxin-A, intrathecal baclofen infusion, gastrostomy feeding and single event multilevel orthopaedic surgery have improved the lives of children with CP. These interventions are generally delivered within multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs in paediatric hospitals. As the most recent cohorts of children move into adulthood, they, and their carers, have expectations of similarly structured services in the adult health care sector. The Children’s Hospita…
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