Ambulanter Kinderhospizdienst (AKHD)

[DeepL:] When a child suffers a life-shortening or life-threatening illness, the daily order of the entire family is thrown out of balance. The holistic services offered by the AKHD provide professional support and intensive human attention by volunteers during this extraordinary stress.

ABOUT US We full-time coordinators

• offer individual counseling to families and their relatives.
• are contact persons in crises and in the planning of help and relief.
• support the development of a support network for the family.
• carefully select volunteer family companions for support.

Our volunteer family companions

• support the families in their daily lives according to their needs.
• spend time with the sick child or pay attention to his or her siblings.
• are conversation partners for the family members.
• accompany the family during the time of mourning.
• come to the family's home or to the clinic, as well as to child and youth welfare institutions and institutions for people with disabilities.

WHO WE ARE THERE FOR As an outpatient children's hospice service (AKHD), we are available to families with life-shortening or life-threatening illnesses. life-shortening or life-threatening children, adolescents and young adults. We provide support from the time of diagnosis until after the death of the child. The service is free of charge for the families.