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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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Hospice News’ Top 10 Stories of 2022

Hospice News

These were some of the key themes in the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022 that centered around the merger and acquisition landscape as well as the regulatory climate. The following are the most-read Hospice News articles of 2022. #1 1 Social Workers Leaving Hospice, Health Care in Record Numbers (July 11).

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker.

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Terminal Anorexia Patients Hitting Referral, Regulatory Barriers to Hospice Care

Hospice News

The interdisciplinary services involved in hospice and palliative care could help improve support for anorexia patients and their families through increased social worker support, spiritual and respite care, as well as holistic services such as meditation, reiki, massage, music and pet therapies.

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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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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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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.