Objective: There is a shortage of social workers who have palliative care expertise. The
aging US population and advances in extending life for seriously ill persons require social …

ObjectivePalliative social workers have taken steps to increase the numbers of social
workers trained and competent to deliver effective psychosocial palliative care. Despite …

As people live longer with chronic disease and serious illness in the US, palliative care
teams are called upon to support patients and their families. Social workers are an integral …

Background: Health professionals have begun to identify competencies needed for primary
and specialist levels of palliative care practice, but little attention has been given to how …

Social workers have a high probability of relating to clients with terminal illnesses and their
families. Yet, end-of-life education in US graduate programs of social work has been …

Social work education in both BSW and MSW level courses is missing vital content about
end-of-life care, palliative care, and bereavement. End-of-life care training opportunities …

Background: Educating Social Workers in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (ESPEC) is a
nationally scalable continuing education program designed to improve the knowledge and …

In the past decade much growth has occurred in the numbers of patients and families served
by hospices and palliative care services. Thus, not surprisingly, these services have also …

Attention to end-of-life care in social work education and practice is growing. With funding
from the Project on Death in America, in 2001, the University of Iowa, School of Social Work …

Context Care provided to seriously ill patients by frontline social workers is a component of
generalist-level palliative care. The core competencies for high-quality generalist-level …