NASW Celebrates National Hospice/Palliative Care Month: Moments of Life

Join NASW in celebrating National Hospice/Palliative Care Month this November by highlighting how hospice and palliative care programs make possible more meaningful moments of life.

Download outreach materials from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) and incorporate new NHPCO data on hospice use, delivery, and quality in your messaging. Use NASW resources, listed below, to illustrate how social workers help individuals and families to find meaning and to maximize quality of life amid serious or life-limiting illness.

NASW resources:

• Hospice & palliative care practice tools, resources, and announcements
• NASW Standards for Palliative & End of Life Care
• NASW–NHPCO Advanced Practice Specialty Credentials in hospice and palliative social work
• Specialty Practice Sections
• Continuing education (national/online or chapter-level)
• Consumer friendly information about living with illness, family caregiving, and death and dying

Resources developed or offered in collaboration with NASW:

• Hospice Foundation of America programs on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia (April 2015) and adolescent loss (available now)
• Joint Commission consumer brochures addressing palliative care (2012) and memory problems and dementia (2013)
• Leadership Council of Aging Organizations Advanced Care, Hospice, and End of Life Principles (2014)
• National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (2013)
• Eldercare Workforce Alliance (offers issue briefs and resources)

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 (2014)
  • November 10 webinar (free) about the report
• NHPCO
  • Hospice Action Network
  • Public awareness Web site, Moments of Life: Made Possible by Hospice
  • Social Work Section
• Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
• Social Work Palliative and End-of-Life Care listserv (Beth Israel Medical Center)
• Center to Advance Palliative Care
• 2015 White House Conference on Aging

Chris Herman, MSW, LICSW

NASW Senior Practice Associate

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