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Light House
Text: Sergey Strolev 
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev
The building of the children's hospice in St. Petersburg, founded by Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko photo: Sergey Stroyelev
Zhenya and mother Lena in the corridor of the Hospice. Elena does not leave her daughter for a minute, the girl was born with a serious neurological disease and requires constant attention photo: Sergey Strolev 
The instructor of the treatment of the hospice conducts hydrotherapy with Zhenya in a specially equipped pool with warm water, which helps to relax muscles, which leads to an increase in motor activity. As a result, Zhenya can perform movements, which under ordinary conditions are difficult to fulfill the photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Zhenya and instructor of physiotherapy exercises in the pool photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Mom and instructor carefully take Zhenya out of the water after class in the pool photo: Sergey Strolev 
Lena's mother rolled to Zhenya on a special bicycle, which helps the development of motor activity and forms the stereotypes of walking photo: Sergey Strolevelev 
Therapeutic massage conducted by a hospice specialist photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Due to the lesions of the brain, Zhenya does not say a photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Hospice social psychologist conducts a lesson in the sensory room, which has a calming effect of the photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Mom Lena and Zhenya for a walk on the playground near the hospice. With the support of her mother, Zhenya can take a few steps photos: Sergey Stroyelev 
Zhenya with her mother photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Zhenya photo: Sergey Strolev
Tolya in the Hospice Chamber. Up to 10 years, Tolya was a healthy boy, but a tragedy occurred four years ago - an accident, as a result of an injury, the boy was chained to bed Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
A hospice specialist comes to Tole in the ward to make a massage photo: Sergey Strolev 
Tolya walks only in good weather. Parents and experts of the hospice take care of the health of the boy. The slightest cold can cause complications from the respiratory tract photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Tolya is the only child in the family photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Grandmother Nina prepares Tolya for a walk. This is a rather long and physically complex procedure for both grandmother and boy. It is necessary to fix the boy in an armchair, put a lock on the neck and tutors (locks on the feet) photo: Sergey Strolevlev 
Toli parents believe with all their hearts that their only and beloved child will recover, but doctors characterize the disease of felts as an incurable photo: Sergey Stroyelev
Mom Ksenia with Sasha. Near Sasha’s bed is an apparatus saturating its body with oxygen. Due to the inability to turn off Sasha from the apparatus, the mother can move the girl only at short distances. When Sasha is disconnected from the apparatus, her hypoxia (oxygen starvation) photo: Sergey Stroyelev may 
Sasha is in serious condition after resuscitation, where the girl came as a result of an accident that happened a year ago photo: Sergey Strolev 
Grandmother Tanya helps Ksenia to care for Sasha and looks after Sasha’s older sister while mom in the hospital photo: Sergey Strolevelev 
The hospice specialist conducts massage in the Sasha’s House, extends her fingers, which is necessary to improve blood flow and preserve mobility in the joints of the photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Medical physical education on fitball to improve the work of the vestibular apparatus photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
A hospice specialist is engaged with Sasha physiotherapy physical education to improve the work of muscles photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
After making physiotherapy exercises, the specialist carefully returns the girl to bed photo: Sergey Strolev
Mom Nastya sleeps with her daughter in the ward photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Nastya feeds her daughter photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
The girl walks with the help of her mother, but long walks are heavy due to the need to use oxygen concentrate photo: Sergey Strolev 
Medical physical education in fitball photo: Sergey Strolev 
Classes of physiotherapy exercises requires a specialist in training not only medical, but also psychological. Sometimes children are quite violently showing their dissatisfaction and unwillingness to engage, you need to be able to calm the child with a photo: Sergey Stroitelev 
A lesson in orthopedic shoes, this helps the formation of a muscle corset and trains a sense of balance photos: Sergey Strolevlev 
Ivl tubes (apparatus of artificial ventilation) on the bed of Yaroslava. The girl has congenital genetic disease photo: Sergey Stroyelev
Olesya and Tim photo: Sergey Strolev 
Timothy rises in the hospice elevator in his ward. The boy is very cheerful and cheerful and is not at all like a child with a severe neurological disease photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Due to the lesions of the brain, Tim cannot walk and does not say a photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
A hospice specialist conducts a therapeutic massage procedure with Timothy Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Tima plays in the ward and listens to the music photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
Olesya shakes her son on special swings for children in wheelchairs installed in the courtyard of the hospice. Many children felt what a swing is, it was in the Children's Hospice Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 
According to the Hospice workers, the parents should be interested in Pallais therapy, and their love for their children - its inanimated part of the photo: Sergey Strolevelev 
Olesya rolls Tim on a verticalizer, which contributes to the formation of proper posture and adjusts the development of joints photo: Sergey Strolevelev
A sad room where parents and staff say goodbye to the children's left children : Sergey Strolev A total of 295 091 669 all reports text 0 of 0
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Photo: Sergey StroyelevIn this house, they try to illuminate life with the light of life incurable and deadly ill children. Photographer Sergey Strolev visited St. Petersburg Children's Hospice
What do you associate the word hospice? Perhaps with death? In every children's hospice, they die, and the children's hospice in St. Petersburg is no exception, but the employees of this institution tried to illuminate the life of an incurable and terminally ill children, to help parents take care of the child and overcome stress. This kind of practice is called palliative (from the Latin Pallum - a bedspread) Therapy is a system of measures aimed at maintaining the quality of life of patients with incurable, threatening life and seriously leaking diseases, at the most possible level, a comfortable level for him.
The children's hospice in St. Petersburg is unique, since this is the only state institution in Russia that provides a full range of palliative assistance to children, including medical, psychological, social and spiritual support.
The building of the children's hospice in St. Petersburg, founded by Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko photo: Sergey StroyelevMore than 50 thousand children need palliative assistance in Russia, but many of them do not receive it for a number of reasons, in particular, because it is a new direction of medicine in our country.
The building of the former orphanage on Babushkin Street was turned into a palace for childrenChildren's hospice in St. Petersburg was founded by Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko. At first, the assistance was provided to several families, and in 2003 the CHILDERS FOM "Children's Hospice" was founded, whose employees - social teachers and psychologists - began to go home to seriously ill children.
In 2006, with the support of the governor, a medical institution "Children's Hospice" was created. 40 employees went to sick children, serving about 200 families. The dream of opening the hospital came true in 2010, when the building of the former orphanage on Grandmother Street was turned into a palace for children or, as it seemed to me, into a real house of light, including unique constructions for children-tolerance and everything necessary for a comfortable stay of patients.
The institution operates an Orthodox temple where you can take communion, however, if one of the patients belongs to a different religion and needs to communicate with representatives of their religious community, the hospice officers assist in organizing this meeting.
The child in this house is in the center of all processes and in loving handsThe word “care” is replaced by the word “love”, and each person involved in the process of therapy puts the life, happiness and comfort of the child in the spotlight.
The child in this house is in the center of all processes and in loving hands.
When one of the patients of the hospice dies, a large candle is lit at the entrance to the building, and the parents and staff of the institution can say goodbye to the child in the “sad” room. In 2015, the candle was lit 18 times ...
Zhenya, 6 years old, and mom Lena
Severe neurological disease
Zhenya and mother Lena in the corridor of the Hospice. Elena does not leave her daughter for a minute, the girl was born with a serious neurological disease and requires constant attention photo: Sergey Strolev The instructor of the treatment of the hospice conducts hydrotherapy with Zhenya in a specially equipped pool with warm water, which helps to relax muscles, which leads to an increase in motor activity. As a result, Zhenya can perform movements, which under ordinary conditions are difficult to fulfill the photo: Sergey Stroyelev Zhenya and instructor of physiotherapy exercises in the pool photo: Sergey Stroyelev Mom and instructor carefully take Zhenya out of the water after class in the pool photo: Sergey Strolev Lena's mother rolled to Zhenya on a special bicycle, which helps the development of motor activity and forms the stereotypes of walking photo: Sergey Strolevelev Therapeutic massage conducted by a hospice specialist photo: Sergey Stroyelev Due to the lesions of the brain, Zhenya does not say a photo: Sergey Stroyelev Hospice social psychologist conducts a lesson in the sensory room, which has a calming effect of the photo: Sergey Stroyelev Mom Lena and Zhenya for a walk on the playground near the hospice. With the support of her mother, Zhenya can take a few steps photos: Sergey Stroyelev Zhenya with her mother photo: Sergey Stroyelev Zhenya photo: Sergey StrolevTolya, 14 years old, and grandmother Nina
Severe neurological disease
Tolya in the Hospice Chamber. Up to 10 years, Tolya was a healthy boy, but a tragedy occurred four years ago - an accident, as a result of an injury, the boy was chained to bed Photo: Sergey Stroyelev A hospice specialist comes to Tole in the ward to make a massage photo: Sergey Strolev Tolya walks only in good weather. Parents and experts of the hospice take care of the health of the boy. The slightest cold can cause complications from the respiratory tract photo: Sergey Stroyelev Tolya is the only child in the family photo: Sergey Stroyelev Grandmother Nina prepares Tolya for a walk. This is a rather long and physically complex procedure for both grandmother and boy. It is necessary to fix the boy in an armchair, put a lock on the neck and tutors (locks on the feet) photo: Sergey Strolevlev Toli parents believe with all their hearts that their only and beloved child will recover, but doctors characterize the disease of felts as an incurable photo: Sergey StroyelevSasha, 1 year and 3 months, mother Ksenia, grandmother Tanya
The consequences of an accident
Mom Ksenia with Sasha. Near Sasha’s bed is an apparatus saturating its body with oxygen. Due to the inability to turn off Sasha from the apparatus, the mother can move the girl only at short distances. When Sasha is disconnected from the apparatus, her hypoxia (oxygen starvation) photo: Sergey Stroyelev may Sasha is in serious condition after resuscitation, where the girl came as a result of an accident that happened a year ago photo: Sergey Strolev Grandmother Tanya helps Ksenia to care for Sasha and looks after Sasha’s older sister while mom in the hospital photo: Sergey Strolevelev The hospice specialist conducts massage in the Sasha’s House, extends her fingers, which is necessary to improve blood flow and preserve mobility in the joints of the photo: Sergey Stroyelev Medical physical education on fitball to improve the work of the vestibular apparatus photo: Sergey Stroyelev A hospice specialist is engaged with Sasha physiotherapy physical education to improve the work of muscles photo: Sergey Stroyelev After making physiotherapy exercises, the specialist carefully returns the girl to bed photo: Sergey StrolevYaroslava, 1 year and 4 months, mother Nastya
Complex genetic disease
Mom Nastya sleeps with her daughter in the ward photo: Sergey Stroyelev Nastya feeds her daughter photo: Sergey Stroyelev The girl walks with the help of her mother, but long walks are heavy due to the need to use oxygen concentrate photo: Sergey Strolev Medical physical education in fitball photo: Sergey Strolev Classes of physiotherapy exercises requires a specialist in training not only medical, but also psychological. Sometimes children are quite violently showing their dissatisfaction and unwillingness to engage, you need to be able to calm the child with a photo: Sergey Stroitelev A lesson in orthopedic shoes, this helps the formation of a muscle corset and trains a sense of balance photos: Sergey Strolevlev Ivl tubes (apparatus of artificial ventilation) on the bed of Yaroslava. The girl has congenital genetic disease photo: Sergey StroyelevTimofey, 2 years and 9 months, mother Olesya
Severe neurological disease
Olesya and Tim photo: Sergey Strolev Timothy rises in the hospice elevator in his ward. The boy is very cheerful and cheerful and is not at all like a child with a severe neurological disease photo: Sergey Stroyelev Due to the lesions of the brain, Tim cannot walk and does not say a photo: Sergey Stroyelev A hospice specialist conducts a therapeutic massage procedure with Timothy Photo: Sergey Stroyelev Tima plays in the ward and listens to the music photo: Sergey Stroyelev Olesya shakes her son on special swings for children in wheelchairs installed in the courtyard of the hospice. Many children felt what a swing is, it was in the Children's Hospice Photo: Sergey Stroyelev According to the Hospice workers, the parents should be interested in Pallais therapy, and their love for their children - its inanimated part of the photo: Sergey Strolevelev Olesya rolls Tim on a verticalizer, which contributes to the formation of proper posture and adjusts the development of joints photo: Sergey StrolevelevSad room
A sad room where parents and staff say goodbye to the children's left children : Sergey Strolev A total of 295 091 669 all reports text 0 of 0Due to the lesions of the brain, Tim cannot walk and does not speak.
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0The building of the children's hospice in St. Petersburg founded by Archpriest Alexander Tkachenko
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Zhenya and mother Lena in the corridor of the Hospice. Elena does not leave her daughter for a minute, the girl was born with a serious neurological disease and requires constant attention
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0The instructor of the treatment of the hospice conducts hydrotherapy with Zhenya in a specially equipped pool with warm water, which helps to relax muscles, which leads to an increase in motor activity. As a result, Zhenya can perform movements, which under ordinary conditions are difficult to fulfill for her
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Zhenya and instructor of physiotherapy exercises in the pool
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Mom and instructor carefully take Zhenya out of the water after class in the pool
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Mom Lena rolled to Zhenya on a special bicycle, which helps the development of motor activity and forms walking stereotypes
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Therapeutic massage conducted by a hospice specialist
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Due to the lesions of the brain, Zhenya does not speak
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Hospice social psychologist conducts a lesson in the sensory room, which has a calming effect
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Mom Lena and Zhenya for a walk on the playground near the hospice. Eugene can take a few steps with support for mom
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Zhenya with her mother
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Zhenya
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Tolya in the Hospice Chamber. Up to 10 years, Tolya was a healthy boy, but a tragedy occurred four years ago - an accident, as a result of an injury, the boy was chained to bed
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0A hospice specialist comes to Tole in the ward to make a massage
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Tolya walks only in good weather. Parents and experts of the hospice take care of the health of the boy. The slightest cold can cause complications from the respiratory tract
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Tolya is the only child in the family
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Grandmother Nina prepares Tolya for a walk. This is a rather long and physically complex procedure for both grandmother and boy. It is necessary to fix the boy in an armchair, put a lock on the neck and tutors (locks on your feet)
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Toli parents believe with all their hearts that their only and beloved child will recover, but doctors characterize the disease of felts as an incurable
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Mom Ksenia with Sasha. Near Sasha’s bed is an apparatus saturating its body with oxygen. Due to the inability to turn off Sasha from the apparatus, the mother can move the girl only at short distances. When Sasha is disconnected from the apparatus, her hypoxia (oxygen starvation) may occur.
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Sasha is in serious condition after resuscitation, where the girl came as a result of an accident that happened a year ago
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Grandmother Tanya helps Ksenia to care for Sasha and looks after Sasha’s older sister while mom is in the hospital
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0The hospice specialist conducts massage in the Sasha House, extends her fingers, which is necessary to improve blood flow and preserve mobility in the joints
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Medical physical education on fitball to improve the work of the vestibular apparatus
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0A hospice specialist is engaged with Sasha physiotherapy physical education to improve muscle work
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0After making physiotherapy physical education, the specialist carefully returns the girl to bed
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Mom Nastya sleeps with her daughter in the ward
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Nastya feeds her daughter
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0The girl walks with the help of her mother, but distant walks are heavy due to the need to use oxygen concentrate
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Medical physical education on fitball
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Classes of physiotherapy exercises requires a specialist in training not only medical, but also psychological. Sometimes children quite violently show their dissatisfaction and unwillingness to engage, one must be able to calm the child
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0A lesson in orthopedic shoes, this helps the formation of a muscle corset and trains a sense of balance
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Ivl tubes (apparatus of artificial ventilation) on the bed of Yaroslava. The girl has congenital genetic disease
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Olesya and Tim
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Timothy rises in the hospice elevator in his ward. The boy is very cheerful and cheerful and is not at all like a child with a serious neurological disease
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Due to the lesions of the brain, Tim cannot walk and does not say
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Hospice specialist conducts a therapeutic massage procedure with Timothy
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Tima plays in the ward and listens to music
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Olesya shakes her son on special swings for children in wheelchairs installed in the courtyard of the hospice. Many children felt what a swing is, it was in the children's hospice
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0According to Hospice workers, parents should be interested in Pallais therapy, and their love for their children - its inextricable part
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Olesya rolls Tim on a verticalizer, which contributes to the formation of proper posture and adjusts the development of the joints
Photo: Sergey Stroyelev 0 of 0Sad room where parents and staff say goodbye to those who have left
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