An alternative health care setting for children with cancer: a residential summer camp.
Increasing concern for the psychosocial needs of children with cancer has paralleled increasing survival rates. This paper discusses the way in which a summer camp program can help to meet many social needs of children with cancer. Also discussed is the proposal of a campsite to be operated year-round for families of children with cancer, and the way in which such a program can help to meet many needs of these families.
D002140:California; D002165:Camping; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms; D012112:Residential Facilities