Irish Hospice Foundation is proud to be contributing to an ongoing all-Ireland Compassionate Communities research project, with the aim of addressing the changing healthcare and wellbeing needs across the island of Ireland. This work is funded through the Shared Island Civic Society Fund from the Department of Foreign Affairs Ireland and Northern Ireland Public Health […]
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About In My Thoughts Having completed Caru’s training for best practice in end-of-life care, Director of Nursing Elaine Moloney was inspired to expand on the contents for reflections held for staff and residents at Sunhill Nursing Home following the death of a resident. A twin ambition was to give everyone the opportunity to have open […]
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Why Does Grief in the Workplace Matter? Our grief in the workplace programme is evidence-based, meaning all our content is developed using up to date research, including relevant grief theories and the voice of lived experience. This research underpins and strengthens all our awareness building, education and advocacy initiatives. Using information from our recently developed […]
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I Want to Develop a Bereavement Policy For any organisation to truly embed bereavement and grief support into the organisation, buy in and commitment from Human Resources and upper-level management is required. One way to do this is to develop a comprehensive and effective bereavement policy. Organisations may call this different things such as: Bereavement […]
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About Moving Forward with Grief Multi-disciplinary artist Helen Keenan facilitated drawing and movement classes for residents at Esker Lodge Nursing Home in Cavan. These were aimed at engaging the mind, body and spirit for processing emotions around dying, death, grief and loss. Individual sessions were hosted separately for people living with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s […]
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About Roots of Remembering Roots of Remembering is ostensibly a collaborative visual art project for residents and staff at Brindley Manor Nursing Home in Convoy, Donegal. Led by experienced socially engaged artist-facilitator Rebecca Strain, together they created a ceramic artwork of mosaics and an accompanying book. An underlying ambition was to gently explore mutual experiences […]
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Irish Hospice Foundation’s Arts and Cultural Engagement Programme hosted an “Arts, Grief and Loss Skills and Information Exchange” workshop in Letterkenny, Co Donegal. The aim was to explore how creative artists, compassionate communities, and skilled professional therapists can work together to support people in grief and loss using creative practices. While small in number, Irish […]
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Resources IHF Forum on End of Life 2024 Dying & Grieving Well in Our Communities February 27, 2024 | Royal College of Physicians, Dublin #IHFForum2024 Presentation Slides View the speaker presentation slides from IHF Forum on End of Life 2024: Corrigan Hall – Morning Slides Corrigan Hall – Afternoon Slides Winters Hall – Afternoon Slides […]
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CCN Leitrim Part Two Earlier this year, we facilitated a series of compassionate creative workshops in Leitrim in collaboration with Brendan Murray, Director of The Glens Centre in Manorhamilton, and visual artist Cróna Gallagher. This led to the commissioning of a second series. However, this time it was an artist-led collective exploration of the intersection […]
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CCN Leitrim Part One As part of our expanding Compassionate Culture Network, we joined forces with the Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, inviting people to talk and explore what might be created after loss during March and April. Building from ‘Death Cafés’ which invite people to discuss dying, death, grief, and loss, Irish Hospice Foundation’s Compassionate Culture […]
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