Clinical social work at the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of the MHH is another pillar of optimal patient care alongside medicine and Nursing. Illness and hospitalization are a particular burden for every person, which often has an impact on their previous living situation and everyday life. If questions, worries, advice and clarification needs arise as a result, the social counseling service is the place to go.

As an interdisciplinary team, social counseling offers support by providing advice on socio-legal and psychosocial issues. Clinical social work accompanies and supports oncology patients and their relatives with problems that have arisen as a result of their illness and disability and can affect their lives psychologically, physically, professionally and financially.

The aim of social counseling is to work with you to find individual help for your personal situation. Social counseling is provided at your request, that of your relatives and at the suggestion of the ward. The services are free of charge for you. Social counseling is of course subject to confidentiality.

The social counseling service provides information and advice

• on health, Nursing and pension insurance benefits
• Disability and social assistance law
• on legal guardianship and powers of attorney
• on medical and occupational rehabilitation measures
• Self-help groups and advice centers

The social counselling service arranges and organizes

• necessary rehabilitation measures
• outpatient care services, palliative/hospice services aids
• as well as supplementary measures to ensure continued care in the home environment
• Short-term care, inpatient nursing home/hospice care
• Help with financial problems and social emergencies

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