Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care in the Homeless: Examining a Service System and a Call for Action for Social Work

This article reports on a qualitative study done in a medium sized Midwestern city in the United States that attempted to understand and examine the service network for the provision of healthcare for serious illness and end-of-life care for the homeless. Ten key informants representing critical hea...

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Main Author: Jennifer Davis-Berman (Author)
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Published: Social Work & Society, 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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