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J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care · Jan 2006
Linguistic competence/language access services (LAS) in end-of-life and palliative care: a social work leadership imperative.
- Margie Rodríguez Le Sage.
- School of Social Work, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. margie.rodriguezlesage@ssc.msu.edu
- J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care. 2006 Jan 1;2(4):3-31.
AbstractDespite the mandated and moral imperative to advance linguistic competence in all health care contexts, leadership that addresses this area of practice and study in end-of-life and palliative care is not readily obvious. Because social work is ideally suited to lead efforts to advance linguistically-accessible end-of-life and palliative care, social workers are encouraged to assume the challenge. This article focuses on topics that are elementary yet central to discussions on language diversity and leadership initiatives to advance language access in end-of-life and palliative care contexts: importance and function of language, extent of language diversity, inequity related to language diversity, mandates and standards related to language access, and approaches and competencies that contribute positively to language access.
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