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During the late 70's and 80's the hospice movement was expanding and social workers were being asked to join doctors and home support staff (some with the Macmillan label) to work with patients who were terminally ill with cancer, and their families/carers. Many social workers were working in isolation, forging a new role that often included teaching and bereavement care as well as the more traditional role of advocacy and working with families. The Association of Hospice Social Workers, AHSW (as it was known then) was formed to help us support one another, to pool skills and experience and to pioneer the role of the social worker in multidisciplinary teams.
The Association has gone from strength to strength and our membership makes its voice heard in many quarters - education, research, organisational issues as well as therapeutic work. Other major developments have been in the areas of family work, work with bereaved children and innovative work with service users.
In 1998 the Association changed its name to encompass the growing number of social workers operating in palliative care settings other than hospices.
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