#palliativehospice

Palliative and hospice social workers work with patients with serious, chronic, or terminal illnesses.  Palliative social workers work on relieving pain and other symptoms of the patients illness.  Hospice social workers work with the dying patients.  These social workers provide their patients with support groups to help their patients and the families cope with the illness. Palliative and hospice social workers focus on the psychosocial needs of the patients and families that are affected by serious, chronic, or terminal illnesses.