Hospice News
MARCH 11, 2024
Embedding palliative care-trained social workers in hospital emergency departments can help health care providers effectively serve some of the most vulnerable patients. Populations who most need palliative care are often chronically ill seniors with complex health conditions. Sinai Beth Israel.
Hospice News
MAY 26, 2023
Three important considerations can help hospices recruit and retain social workers — a respectful workplace culture, reasonable workloads and continuing education opportunities. Workforce shortages remain the industry’s most damaging headwind, and that includes social workers.
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Hospice News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Patients are more likely to receive palliative care if they can access social workers through their primary care providers, Veterans Health Administration (VA) research has found. These findings suggest that social workers may increase access to and/or use of palliative care.”.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Summary Transcript Summary. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Welcome back, Anne.
HopeHealth
DECEMBER 22, 2023
That’s a key benefit of palliative care. These teams include an additional layer of medical support to help you feel better and plan Read More The post How do palliative social workers help people living with serious illness? appeared first on HopeHealth.
Hospice News
MARCH 18, 2024
However, more stakeholders are applying the term to palliative care. Personalized medicine is a step away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to health care. Unfortunately, that gives you a genotype of that individual, but it doesn’t give you their phenotype,” Logan told Palliative Care News.
Hospice News
MAY 7, 2024
Palliative care delivery approaches that are not gender-inclusive can contribute to significant quality issues in caring for transgender populations. Developing trust, empathy and understanding with a patient are particularly important pieces of quality gender-affirming palliative care delivery, according to Fried.
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