Social worker

Patients of the Oncology Center in Bydgoszcz can benefit from the help of a social worker.

His tasks include:

• examining the patient’s environment and his social and living situation
• cooperation with the family to ensure comprehensive social care for the patient
• consultancy in the field of benefits (pension and disability judgments, judgments degree of disability, assistance in completing applications)
• assistance in organizing care after leaving the hospital
• support and comprehensive assistance in the preparation and submission of documentation in order to place the patient in a hospice, care and treatment facility, nursing home, shelter
• assistance regarding the patient’s social matters
• informing about procedures that occur in various institutions
• conducting an environmental interview in order to obtain the right to healthcare services financed from public funds, benefits and placement in a social welfare home
• cooperation with social welfare centers, institutions and non-governmental organizations
• referring the patient and his family to aid institutions
• emotional support for the patient and his family