Nuove strutture sociosanitarie. Gli hospice pediatrici. New Healthcare Facilities. the pediatric hospice

According to the last standard ot 3 beds/1000 citizens recently established by central Government, hospitals in Italy are going to lose the role of unap-propriate substitute that negatively in¬fluenced their performance since long time: the hospital will become a 'hub' providing highly specialized services, while community health functions can be decentralized over the territory where 'requests' are expressed and the effectiveness of 'response' can be eval¬uated. With particolar reference to the palliative pediatric care network, the system has the pediatric hospice as its core reference (see L.38/2010); such fa¬cilities are operative in foreign coun¬tries since long times but they are not much known in Italy, as we have only the Padua hospice. The aim of research project is to ana¬lyze the many and peculiar needs of the pediatric patient and his family, turning these requests in suggestions for design and planning and trying to give proper solutions through the quality of habitat. The hook "Architec¬ture and design for the paediatric hos¬pice" represents the findings.