Some Basic Membership Information. Membership in Lounge Club is typically for a one year period, starting the day you receive your membership card. Some memberships are renewed automatically, while others require action on the part of the cardholder; it depends on your credit card provider.
Information For > Allied Health > Allied Health and Palliative Care > Roles of Allied Health Professionals > Social Workers. A social worker provides counselling and support to both patients and their families. Social workers focus on supporting people and their families with honesty, respect and without judgement, as their priorities and needs for living change.
As well as organising medical treatment, the palliative care team can provide services that care for your emotional, physical, practical and spiritual needs. This team approach can help to enhance the quality of life of people with cancer and their families, whatever stage the advanced cancer is at. report by the NSW Ministry of Health found that, of the 13,000 people in NSW who die of cancer each year, two-thirds receive specialist palliative care. About 10% receive this care in the last year of their life.