Support close to home

Overview

• Care finder: find care close to home

  The Zorgzoeker [‘Care finder’] from KinderOncoNet lists physical therapists, psychologists, dietitians, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and rehabilitation centers in your area. These professionals have expertise in childhood cancer and work closely with the Princess Máxima Center.

• Primary care physician

  From about three months after the end of treatment, your child visits the primary care physician for general symptoms, such as fever. After an allogeneic stem cell transplant, this may be later. Your treatment team will tell you exactly when this applies and will transfer the relevant information to your primary care physician. Your primary care physician will therefore have all the important information.

  Your primary care physician:

  • Helps with pain, fatigue, sleep problems, infections, or psychosocial questions.

  • Refers your child to paramedical or psychological care when needed .

  • Oversees the health of the whole family.

• Youth health care / well-child clinic

  • Monitors your child’s growth, development, and behavior.

  • Helps with questions about school, concentration, fatigue, or social-emotional development.

  • Can refer your child to specialist care.

  • Supports parents with parenting questions and finding balance within the family.

• Physical therapist

  • Helps improve fitness, muscle strength, balance, and endurance.

  • Supports your child in gradually increasing activities and sports.

• Occupational therapist

  • Supports your child with managing energy, structuring the day, participating in school, and gradually increasing activities.

  • Helps with fatigue, sensory processing, and finding balance.

  • Can advise parents on the demands placed on the family and what the family can manage.

• Psychologist/educational psychologist

  • Provides support with anxiety, stress, trauma, low mood, behavioral changes, or social challenges.

  • Helps children and parents process what has happened and regain confidence.

  • Can provide support with school, concentration, and returning to everyday life.

  • There are specialist psychological centers, such as the Ingeborg Douwes Center, Behouden Huys, and Helen Dowling Institute (especially for adults).

• Dietitian

  • Provides advice on eating problems, being underweight, being overweight, or specific nutritional questions.

  • Helps with restoring energy and fitness.

• Rehabilitation physician

  • Helps with complex physical or cognitive effects of treatment.

  • Develops a plan for gradually increasing activities and recovery.

  • Works with physical therapists, occupational therapists, and other therapists.

• Speech therapist

  • Provides support with swallowing problems and speech, language, or voice problems.