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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. What does this diagnosis mean to you? You begin with psychosocial assessment and care. Barbara: You do.

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

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Eric: So in some ways, this is kind of like the VA, where you don’t have to follow Medicare guidelines, but you can actually actively do concurrent care for these individuals. Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years. Keith: Yes.

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