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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cancer centers should have social withers who deal with this directly. Also, have you tried the American Cancer Society?

(No one really has mild cancer. They may have a type or stage that is curable.)  I am sorry that you are having to deal with end of life issues. Hospices are specialists in that…[/quote]

It seems as if, once I actually try to talk to the social workers about any resource that ought to be pretty easy to locate, it doesn’t exist, doesn’t exist in a useful form or isn’t something the social worker of other care coordinator can help with.

Such as: Simply getting a parent who’s weak from chemo, and who isn’t normally in a wheelchair, in a chair to go home. I eventually figured out a workaround, but, at first I couldn’t figure out any way at all to get my father back home from chemo. The cancer center has made, maybe, $200,000 off my father, but because of legal concerns, it won’t send anyone to help with transferring someone or provide a list of gig workers who help with that. And I know that lots of people make that happen everyday, but this was my first time doing post-chemo transport, and I just couldn’t even imagine that a place that had earned $200,000 off my father wouldn’t have a big strong guy somewhere who could help out for a couple minutes. Discovering that blew my mind. [/quote]

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