November 25, 2015
Join NASW in celebrating National Hospice & Palliative Care Month this November. This year’s theme highlights that hospice provides the highest quality care for all people coping with life-limiting illness.
Social workers are core members of hospice teams and play integral roles in enhancing quality of life for individuals and families. Use the materials listed below to inform your outreach efforts and to highlight the hospice social work role during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month. Leave a comment describing how you’ve celebrated National Hospice & Palliative Care Month.
NASW resources:
Hospice & palliative care practice tools, resources, and announcements, including comments supporting advance care planning and quality end-of-life care
NASW Standards for Palliative & End of Life Care
Stories of Complicated Grief: A Critical Anthology—NASW Press
Caregiving and Care Sharing: A Life Course Perspective—NASW Press
NASW–NHPCO Advanced Practice Specialty Credentials in hospice and palliative social work
Specialty Practice Sections
Continuing education—2016 national conference, chapter programs, Professional Education Training Center, and Lunchtime Series
Consumer friendly information about living with illness, family caregiving, grief, and death and dying
Resources developed or offered in collaboration with NASW:
National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (3rd ed.)
Joint Commission consumer brochures addressing palliative care and memory problems and dementia
Leadership Council of Aging Organizations—Advanced Care, Hospice, and End of Life Principles and other resources
Eldercare Workforce Alliance—issue briefs, resources, and advocacy to strengthen the health care workforce serving older adults and family caregivers
NASW-supported sign-on letters advocating for hospice & palliative care education & training and related issues
Other related resources:
Free archived webinars on end-of-life care and other topics related to nursing home social work, offered by University of Iowa School of Social Work
Institute of Medicine report, Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life, and related resources
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Outreach materials for National Hospice and Palliative Care Month 2015
Public awareness Web site, Moments of Life: Made Possible by Hospice
2015 reports—Hospice Care in America; Pediatric Palliative & Hospice Care
Hospice Action Network
National Council of Hospice & Palliative Professionals—Social Work Section
Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
Social Work Palliative and End-of-Life Care listserv (SW-PALL-EOL)
Center to Advance Palliative Care
2015 White House Conference on Aging—video archives, policy briefs, and other resources
Chris Herman, MSW, LICSW
NASW Senior Practice Associate