Top 20 Indicators for Social Work Intervention
If one or more of these indicators are present at admit or become problems during an open case, please make a referral to Social Work and conference with your office Social Worker.
Questions to consider for your patient:
- Lives alone? Over age 85?
- No Power of Attorney for Health Care?
- Caregiver overwhelmed?
- Needs to move?
- Terminally ill?
- Minimal support system?
- Needs community resources?
- Financial problems?
- Alcohol abuse?
- Depressed or anxious? Suicidal?
- High medication costs?
- Needs legal direction?
- Family conflict?
- Suspect neglect or abuse?
- Recent personal losses?
- Needs to plan for the future?
- Grieving?
- Recent and abrupt change in functioning?
- Dementia? Memory declining?
- Multiple medical diagnoses?