The document discusses palliative care, hospice care, and Madre de Amore foundation. Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illnesses by preventing and relieving suffering. Hospice care focuses on comprehensive care for terminally ill patients and their families. Madre de Amore foundation is a non-profit organization that provides community-based hospice/palliative care services in Laguna, Philippines through home care, a hospice center, medical equipment, volunteer training, and assistance setting up independent hospices. The objective of the project is to gain more knowledge about palliative and hospice settings, identify the roles and responsibilities of social workers, and determine
The document discusses palliative care, hospice care, and Madre de Amore foundation. Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illnesses by preventing and relieving suffering. Hospice care focuses on comprehensive care for terminally ill patients and their families. Madre de Amore foundation is a non-profit organization that provides community-based hospice/palliative care services in Laguna, Philippines through home care, a hospice center, medical equipment, volunteer training, and assistance setting up independent hospices. The objective of the project is to gain more knowledge about palliative and hospice settings, identify the roles and responsibilities of social workers, and determine
The document discusses palliative care, hospice care, and Madre de Amore foundation. Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illnesses by preventing and relieving suffering. Hospice care focuses on comprehensive care for terminally ill patients and their families. Madre de Amore foundation is a non-profit organization that provides community-based hospice/palliative care services in Laguna, Philippines through home care, a hospice center, medical equipment, volunteer training, and assistance setting up independent hospices. The objective of the project is to gain more knowledge about palliative and hospice settings, identify the roles and responsibilities of social workers, and determine
The document discusses palliative care, hospice care, and Madre de Amore foundation. Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for patients facing life-threatening illnesses by preventing and relieving suffering. Hospice care focuses on comprehensive care for terminally ill patients and their families. Madre de Amore foundation is a non-profit organization that provides community-based hospice/palliative care services in Laguna, Philippines through home care, a hospice center, medical equipment, volunteer training, and assistance setting up independent hospices. The objective of the project is to gain more knowledge about palliative and hospice settings, identify the roles and responsibilities of social workers, and determine
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Larrie Lenn Geneve M. Calinagan
BS SW 4-2
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Background information of the project:
Title: Palliative and Hospice care: An Emerging Setting in Social Work
Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care:
provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
affirms life and regards dying as a normal process; intends neither to hasten or postpone death; integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care; offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death; offers a support system to help the family cope during the patients illness and in their own bereavement; uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counseling, if indicated; will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness; Is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.
Hospice care is a field of medicine that focuses on the comprehensive care of patients with terminal illnesses. Hospice need not be a place but rather a service that offers support, resources, and assistance to terminally ill patients and their families. The main goal of hospice is to provide a peaceful, symptom-free, and dignified transition to death for patients whose diseases are advanced beyond a cure. The hope for a cure shifts to hope for a life free of suffering. The focus becomes quality of life rather than its length. Hospice care is patient-centered medical care. A host of valuable services are offered to address every aspect of the patient's care as a whole. This is achieved by considering each individual's goals, values, beliefs, and rituals.
Our chosen foundation is Madre de Amore foundation, The Madre de Amor Hospice Foundation is a non-stock, non-profit organization providing community-based hospice/palliative care service. It began in Los Baos in 1994 and currently covers 23 out of the 30 towns in Laguna. The Hospice Center in Los Baos, the first in the country, is where our patients and their families, out staff and volunteers gather for consultation, meetings, training and fellowship. We have a growing group of dedicated volunteers who devote their time and talent to the care of our patients and their families. We have medical equipment like hospital beds, oxygen tanks, wheelchairs, nebulizers and suction machines to aid in our patients home care. We regularly conduct the Volunteer Training Program for interested volunteers and assist in setting up independent hospices in other communities. III.
Objective of the Project:
1. To gain more knowledge and understanding about palliative and
hospice setting. 2. To identify the experiences, roles and responsibilities of a social worker in a palliative care setting. 3. To identify the factors that impede or help the social worker in their perceive roles; and 4. To identify the contribution of social work education in the roles and responsibilities of workers in palliative and hospice care setting. IV.
