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Almost 30,000 people die in Ireland each year. While a majority would like to die at home, the reality is that at least half of all deaths (48%) occur in acute hospitals, and 20% take place in long-stay care facilities such as nursing homes. Only 4% of deaths occur in hospices. Although so many people die in [...] Read more >
Some children are born with or develop what we call a ‘life-limiting condition’. This means they have an incurable illness, often requiring special care, and in time they may need hospice or palliative care. Children’s palliative care needs are not the same as those of adults. A child may be diagnosed with an incurable illness as a baby [...] Read more >
Bereavement information and education is a core aspect of the work of the Irish Hospice Foundation. The dedicated bereavement site BEREAVED.ie aims to provide advice and information for bereaved people, the people supporting them and to professionals working in bereavement support Read more >
Palliative care principles are relevant and applicable to anyone with any life-limiting illness, throughout their disease trajectory, although they traditionally they have been associated with treatment of cancer in the last days of their life. The need for palliative care to be extended to people with diseases such as COPD, Heart Failure and Dementia is [...] Read more >
Education is central to the IHF vision that no-one should face death or bereavement without the care and support they need. READ MORE Read more >
Library and information Services including the Therese Brady Library a unique specialist library collection of over 3, 400 items on bereavement, palliative care and the hospice philosophy Read More Read more >
Most of the care provided to people with advancing life-limiting illness who are living at home is delivered by GPs and other members of the primary care team. Often these people require a palliative approach to the care they receive, and the term ‘primary palliative care’ is increasingly been used to refer to this approach [...] Read more >
The Forum on End-of-Life in Ireland is an Irish Hospice Foundation initiative aimed at raising awareness, planning and promoting public debate on issues relating to death, dying and bereavement in Ireland. During 2009 it engaged with the public on end-of-life issues to find out what people in Ireland believed about dying, death and bereavement. Read [...] Read more >
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