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Celebrating Social Worker Month – March 2022

High Peaks Hospice

High Peaks Hospice Celebrates National Social Worker Month from March 1-31st. Hospice Social Worker. As a hospice social worker, it is common to have conversations that revolve around anticipatory grief. Hospice Social Worker. Hospice Social Worker and Circle of Care Supervisor.

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Live-In Care Packages – What Social Workers Need to Know

HomeTouch

This article will provide social workers with the information they need to understand how […] The post Live-In Care Packages – What Social Workers Need to Know appeared first on Hometouch. Live-in care is becoming an increasingly popular way for those in need of extra help to remain in their own homes.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

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? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not. Barbara: Yay.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

I love this survey because it is mostly of physicians, which physicians are doing the lion’s share of the palliative care work here, but what you say you’re comfortable doing for depression care might not dovetail with what a psychologist or social worker would do in the context of depression care. We have a social worker.”

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Palliative Researcher Oliver: Family Caregivers Are Also Patients

Hospice News

We supplement that with additional resources and articles and things. I was a hospice manager, and I had the philosophy, first, that social workers are a lot cheaper than nurses. And secondly, nurses are best at doing nursing, and social workers are best at doing social work. Is that an additional cost?

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Palliative Care ‘Across the Pond:’ Providers Face Similar Challenges Globally

Hospice News

Payment streams lack what’s needed to support the palliative workforce of clinicians, social workers and spiritual care providers. Home visits are a crucial part of our work to attend to patients who are unable to make the journey to our centers,” Sudhakaran said in a recent BMJ article.

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Palliative Care News Conference: Palliative Prowess

Hospice News

This article is sponsored by KanTime. This article is based on a Palliative Care News discussion with Deanna Heath, Senior Vice President of customer experience at KanTime, Jared King, Vice President of business development and sales at Hospice Dynamix and Sundar Kannan, CEO of KanTime.