Rehabilitation: an alliance for social work?
To Northern Ireland for a rehabilitation in palliative care conference organised by the University of Ulster. This conference was unusually involving with a large number of short discussions of their work by a range of occupation, physio, complementary and arts therapists, You rarely have the chance to hear the detail of the issues discussed in some very impressive work. The Allied Health Professionals are making an increasingly strong contribution to palliative care, which is underestimated, such as social work is. There ought to be some alliances to be made there.
Conferences website: http://www.ahp.ulster.ac.uk/academy/index.php
September 28th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Thank you for your kind comments on our conference. Having your insights as keynote speaker on the third day was very useful for the assembled audience. I agree that social workers and AHPs should consider the strengths of alliances with each other. I hope you and your colleagues will join our virtual palliative rehabilitation community when this is formed on our university website – part of the vision at the conference. Best wishes, Cathy Payne (no relation!)