Social Work Services
Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice Medical Social Workers work closely with the nurses, therapists and home health aides. They focus on the social and emotional issues related to illness or injury and bring a clinical understanding of family systems, human development, aging and psychotherapy.
Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice Social Workers provide these services:
- Community resource planning and referral
- Crisis intervention
- Caregiver support
- Patient advocacy
- Support for health-related lifestyle changes
- Long range planning
- Short term counseling
- Hospice and palliative care social work
- Family meetings
- Financial planning
- Adjustment to illness/prognosis
- Support services for those dealing with grief and loss
- Assessment, support, and referral for other social and emotional factors that could impede medical treatment and recovery