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Medical Social WorkVoyager HealthCare’s Medical Social Workers can provide clients and families with practical assistance with problems they encounter. The help they provide can often help families obtain additional community services. Our medical social worker helps with personal, family and financial problems that may develop as a result of illness or injury. Social problems such as these can affect a client’s response to treatment. Our medical social worker will complete an initial assessment of the various factors that influence the person’s ability to cope with his/her illness. These factors may be physical, social, mental, emotional, spiritual, economic and environmental. When the assessment has been completed, the medical social worker prepares a plan of care with the client and family or caregiver. Information, referral, and advocacy are some of the services the social worker may offer. Medical social workers also counsel clients who may be experiencing severe loss, grief, anger, family strain or financial difficulties. The medical social worker provides short-term counseling, crisis intervention and long-range planning to help with these types of problems. Medical social workers get involved if a client experiences:
Many clients are able to safely remain at home because of the medical social worker’s knowledge of community resources. Their efforts to secure homemaker services, respite sitters, personal care attendants, prepared meals, day treatment or partial day care services are all part of their daily work.
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