03/12/2019
When famous personalities fall ill, the social sympathy is usually great. People with chronic illnesses in particular benefit when "their" illness gets a familiar face.
Life with a chronic illness is a particular challenge for children and adolescents. Programs such as the KfH's "finally adult" programme are designed to help them to deal responsibly with their illness and also to find like-minded people.
Although they are rare, they affect 300 million people worldwide. In other words, rare in this case actually means quite a lot of people but you can’t always tell just by looking at them.