Many of us find talk of death uncomfortable and especially the idea of a hospice. The name brings with it so many negative ideas of a dark and depressing place where you eventually go to die.
That's arguably even more so the case with a children's hospice. No-one wants to contemplate the prospect. Why is that we can't bring ourselves to talk about it? Because while a children's hospice does, inevitably, serve as a place where some children see out their final days and hours there is so much living that happens inside a hospice too.
Children and their families receive support from Ty Hafan, based in the Vale of Glamorgan, from birth until the age of 18 but they don't just simply cut ties after that as the charity continues to support the patient and their family through the transition in to adult services. They offer the transition service because they have often cared for these children their entire lives and the nurses and staff at Ty Hafan have become just as much a part of their family.
