Processes Through Which Palliative Care Social Workers May Improve Goal-Concordant Care (RP104)

1.  Upon successful completion, participants will report the ability to articulate the shared experience of hospitalized older adults with cancer and their caregivers after discharge to a skilled nursing facility and model communication techniques of palliative care social workers to improve quality of care and decision-making near the end of life.2. Participants will be able to analyze how the unique training of palliative care social workers in family and systems level theory ideally positions them to address unmet palliative care needs of patients discharged to SNFs and their caregivers, e specially when communication and care transition needs are forefront.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research