Social worker intervention strategies in palliative care in the brazilian context

Palliative Oncologic Care aims to offer comfort measures to patients who, without the possibility of cure, experience multiple phenomena the social issue. The research goal is to analyze on strategies of assistance in Palliative Care, from the concept of social pain with emphasis on the financial life of cancer patients and their support network.
The research was based with basis in the documentary investigation and of the bibliographic study (was use the integrative review method).The inclusion criteria defined for the selection of articles were: articles published in Portuguese and full texts that expressed the study on the theme with emphasis in in the perspective the Social Work. Articles that did not address the field of Palliative Care focusing on the social issue were excluded. The social worker should act towards make feasible social rights and refer patients to the necessary equipment and services, according to what was identified through the social study, and share information appropriately with the team as well. When a cancer patient is in Palliative Care, the financial costs for them and their support network have no definite end date due to the extent of the treatment that is only completed when life ends. It is found that the greater the access to public policies, the smaller the financial impacts will be and, consequently, there will be less suffering from the social dimension of pain.