Social work bas been a prominent feature of modem palliative care from its earliest days:
Cicely Saunders was a medical social worker when she was inspired by the patient David …

THIS SERIES is initiated in the Journal of Palliative Medicine to inform readers of the
specialization of end-of-life and palliative care within the profession of social work and its …

There are close links between the philosophy and practice of palliative care and of social
work. Social workers have made a significant contribution to developing palli ative care …

Palliative care is a unique and growing part of the Canadian health care delivery system. In
a 1988 survey conducted by the authors it was identified that half the palliative care facilities …

There has been very little research focusing on the role of the social worker in a specialist
palliative care service. A qualitative research methodology was used which sought to …

Dame Cicely trained as a nurse, a medical social worker and finally as a physician. Since
1948 she has been involved with the care of patients with terminal illness, has lectured …

ABSTRACT In 2005 a Social Work Summit on End-of-Life and Palliative Care was hosted by
the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) with support from the Project on Death in …

Social work is integral to the professional practice of the multidisciplinary palliative care
team both in hospice and hospital settings. Alongside nursing, medicine and a range of …

Social work in palliative care sets out to understand and respond to the social dimensions of
the experience of people with life-threatening illness. Three basic aims are◆ to address the …

PALLIATIVE CARE is variously described as multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
transdisciplinary. All of those terms underscore a central role for the team, with its constituent …