For me, a social worker working from a community based setting; assessment is an essential aspect of social work. Assessment guides our intervention, and is also an important step in identifying how different members of a family system are affected by the problem. Within the realms of palliative care, there is that additional step to explore further how the patient is emotionally and physically affected by the terminal illness. There is also a need to understand the experiences and need of the caregivers in the family who are inextricably linked to the patient.
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