CentralStationCRM in action: SCHAKI helps children with stroke
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:17 am
When children suffer a stroke, the family is often helpless and left alone with many questions. The SCHAKI self-help group offers these families the opportunity to exchange ideas on site and online, as well as to organize joint leisure activities. The self-help group was founded in 2005 by Arnold Ackermann, whose son Max himself suffered a prenatal stroke.
Max is now an adult and Arnold Ackermann handed the group over to Anja Gehlken and Britta Nikolei, themselves mothers of affected children, in September 2012.
Children and Stroke - Diagnosis, Therapy and Successes
Even if strokes are more colombia telegram screening commonly associated with older people, around 300 children in Germany suffer a stroke every year - before, during and after birth. One third of the children affected are babies. Diagnosis in children is difficult, even if doctors and parents are becoming more and more aware of the disease at an earlier age.
SCHAKI wants to help those affected and their families not to despair in the difficult situation and to look forward optimistically. Children and young people can have a lot of fun together at the regular family days and adults and relatives can exchange ideas.
It is particularly important to Anja Gehlken and Britta Nikolei not to forget the siblings, who often have to take a back seat to the affected people who demand a lot of attention.
As one of seven self-help groups nationwide for families with children affected by stroke, SCHAKI also works with the German Stroke Foundation, whose “Young People” program SCHAKI members can join from the age of 18. In total, more than 30 families are members of SCHAKI, making the organization the largest of its kind.
Max is now an adult and Arnold Ackermann handed the group over to Anja Gehlken and Britta Nikolei, themselves mothers of affected children, in September 2012.
Children and Stroke - Diagnosis, Therapy and Successes
Even if strokes are more colombia telegram screening commonly associated with older people, around 300 children in Germany suffer a stroke every year - before, during and after birth. One third of the children affected are babies. Diagnosis in children is difficult, even if doctors and parents are becoming more and more aware of the disease at an earlier age.
SCHAKI wants to help those affected and their families not to despair in the difficult situation and to look forward optimistically. Children and young people can have a lot of fun together at the regular family days and adults and relatives can exchange ideas.
It is particularly important to Anja Gehlken and Britta Nikolei not to forget the siblings, who often have to take a back seat to the affected people who demand a lot of attention.
As one of seven self-help groups nationwide for families with children affected by stroke, SCHAKI also works with the German Stroke Foundation, whose “Young People” program SCHAKI members can join from the age of 18. In total, more than 30 families are members of SCHAKI, making the organization the largest of its kind.