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

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Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. We have medical social workers who support the patients. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family. They suffered from it.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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