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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... Specialist palliative care social work may offer many insights for palliative care more generally, as well as for both health care and social work overall. THE APPROACH OF THE BOOK There are many studies of both palliative care and ...
... expert judgements and assessments of palliative care and specialist palliative care social work, its primary contribution is to bring together and access more widely what service users' themselves have to say. THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK ...
... hospice movement, which has greatly influenced modern specialist palliative care, has strong religious origins and inspirations. Two key starting points of this movement, St Joseph's and St Christopher's Hospices, both had such ...
... specialist palliative care. Specialist palliative care services are provided by specialists in palliative care who work in multi-professional teams where palliative care is the core activity of the team. They work in independent ...
... specialist palliative care support. There are now growing public and political pressures for such support to be available. It is not clear, however, how specialist palliative care could meet this need, given its existing limited ...
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 |