{"title":"Beyond Memory: Holding Personhood in Dementia Care.","authors":"Muhammad Izzudin, Mukhamad Zulianto","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2743871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2743871","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This poetic inquiry explores personhood, affective resonance, and relational ethics in dementia care within palliative social work practice. By examining poetic reflections on cognitive decline, the study highlights how non-corrective validation, gentle presence, and emotional attunement preserve human dignity when memory fades. The analysis critically reframes dementia care beyond cognitive restoration, urging social workers and clinicians to honor embodied histories and prioritize relational continuity. Ultimately, it advocates for compassionate, person-centered frameworks that uphold inherent worth throughout advanced illness and end-of-life care.</p>","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149148610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Truth Waited Outside Her Door.","authors":"Haris Annisari Indah Nur Rochimah, Pramana","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2741091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2741091","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Removed Her Name from the Whiteboard Before Her Family Left the Room.","authors":"Yuliana Dyah Rahmawati, Pramana","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2743083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2743083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Care Continues After Death.","authors":"Yulianti","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2741090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2741090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Work Support for Anticipatory Grief in Rural Palliative Care Transitions: A Narrative Review for South Africa.","authors":"Buyiswa Swartbooi, Yolanda Saunders","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2736201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2736201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family caregivers play a central role in palliative care, especially during hospital-to-home transitions, when rural families may assume complex care with limited preparation and uneven professional support. Anticipatory grief, the grief experienced before a loved one's death, can intensify emotional, practical, social and financial strain. A SANRA-informed, agenda-setting narrative review integrated literature on palliative care, caregiver burden, anticipatory grief, transitional care, rural healthcare and social work to develop a research and practice agenda for rural South African public health settings, with particular relevance to the Eastern Cape. Searches conducted from March to May 2026 covered PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Google Scholar, African Journals Online, Sabinet African Journals, ScienceDirect and selected policy and professional sources. Of 124 records initially considered, 44 full texts or source documents were examined and 32 were retained for synthesis. The evidence supports anticipatory grief as a key dimension of hospital-to-home transition and indicates that established social work functions can be sequenced across a five-phase pathway grounded in transition theory, family systems thinking and the person-in-environment perspective. Because Eastern Cape-specific evidence remains limited, the framework is presented as a theory-informed agenda for empirical testing rather than a validated intervention. Priorities include local caregiver research, grief-informed assessment, multidisciplinary discharge planning, rural follow-up systems, practical resource linkage and culturally responsive bereavement support.</p>","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149026320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Family Group Chat Kept Saying Good Morning After My Mother Stopped Answering.","authors":"Melati Budi Srikandi, Pramana","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2736204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2736204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Hope and Harm: A Reflective Social Work Commentary in Pediatric Transplant Care.","authors":"Aysha Jawed","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2736205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2736205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149012928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflection on the Subconscious Dreamscape of the Dying.","authors":"Jessica Villafranco","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2736206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2736206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Body: Women's Experiences of Life-Limiting Gynecological Cancer and Implications for Feminist Palliative Social Work.","authors":"Satı Gül Kapısız, Aybüke Büyükkağnıcı, Elif Gökçearslan, Belkız Berna Külah, Ezgi Arslan Özdemir","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2736203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2736203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gynecological cancers are serious, potentially life-limiting illnesses affecting women's physical health, bodily identities, family roles, relationships, and psychosocial care needs. Although psycho-oncology literature has addressed cancer-related distress, the gendered, embodied, and relational dimensions of gynecological cancer remain insufficiently examined within feminist and palliative social work scholarship. This qualitative phenomenological study explores women's lived experiences of gynecological cancer and their psychosocial and palliative care needs from a feminist social work perspective. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with eight women receiving inpatient treatment in a gynecological oncology clinic in Türkiye and analyzed thematically. Findings show that participants experienced gynecological cancer as an embodied and socially situated life-limiting illness marked by bodily disruption, emotional vulnerability, stigma, silence, dependency concerns, and limited psychosocial support. The findings also suggest that palliative needs may emerge before the terminal phase through uncertainty, family caregiving, loss of autonomy, bodily dependence, and concerns about dignity, privacy, and relational support. The findings support earlier, gender-sensitive, culturally responsive, and relationally informed palliative social work involvement in oncology settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"She Learned to Measure Love in Milligrams.","authors":"Pramana","doi":"10.1080/15524256.2026.2729067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15524256.2026.2729067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This poem examines caregiving at the intersection of chronic illness, intimacy, and end-of-life uncertainty. Rather than presenting diabetes solely as a medical condition, it traces how care gradually becomes organized through numbers, routines, restrictions, and vigilance. Glucose readings, insulin doses, meals, wounds, and laboratory results function as recurring symbols of a relationship increasingly translated into clinical measurements. Against this numerical order, the poem foregrounds forms of care that remain unrecorded: sleeplessness, fear, touch, memory, and the quiet labor of staying present. The final movement shifts from disease management toward palliative recognition, where comfort and relational dignity become more important than strict control. By contrasting measurable indicators with immeasurable devotion, the poem reflects on caregiver burden, anticipatory grief, and the emotional transformation of a partner into an informal clinical companion. It ultimately asks how love may be reclaimed when treatment can no longer promise recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":45992,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148897968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}