Passage de l’enfant handicapé à l’âge adulte, recommandations de l’Académie nationale de médecine

Abstract

Children, and their close entourage, growing up with severe disabilities will face a change in the medical and medico-social environment in adolescence, imposed simply because of a transition to the legal age of adulthood. These changes involve significant risks of disruption in care, as well as life and educational projects. The National Academy of Medicine, through its transdisciplinary medical perspective, wished to make its contribution, based on the local responses already provided, to promote good practice in the support of the transition of the disabled child to adulthood, for all situations of severe motor and associated or psychiatric disabilities, highlighting their common points. These recommendations have been drawn up for the attention of administrative and legal decision-makers and for professionals in the medical and medico-social sectors.