Palliative Care, Social Work and Service Users: Making Life PossibleThis unique book provides a rare look at social work and palliative care from the perspective of service users. It is the first to investigate specialist palliative care social work from this viewpoint. |
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... number of discussions about specialist palliative care social work. What distinguishes this book is that it focuses on what service users – the people on the receiving end – have to say about the subject. This is unusual. Traditionally ...
... number has increased to about 260 – although no reliable data are available for the overall number of social workers now working in palliative care. It is worth quoting at length what its professional association says about palliative ...
... service users – that this is still at an early stage, is patchy in implementation and is raising a number of concerns and uncertainties from service providers. At the same time, most of the large independent palliative care and related ...
... service users in all stages of the project, including finalizing the research focus, developing the research schedule, and analysing and disseminating findings. This involvement had a number of expressions. Palliative care and other service ...
... no, no, no, no, no, I know I'm ill but I'm not that ill.' (Woman patient, white UK, age group 66–75) Another woman patient referred to her husband's ... number for contacting the hospice 42 PALLIATIVE CARE, SOCIAL WORK AND SERVICE USERS.
Contents
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Developing the Discussion | 131 |
How We Carried Out the Research
| 227 |
The Interview Schedule
| 247 |
References
| 252 |
Subject Index
| 261 |
Author Index
| 266 |