The Alliance of Age Sector NGOs are making a call for a post-pandemic focus on regaining older people’s role in society. […]
Alliance of Age Sector NGOs Publish Annual Statement
Revised Information for Visiting in Nursing Homes
We welcome the revised information for visits to nursing homes. We have created a guide outlining updated HSE information […]
IHF Welcome Updated Visiting Requirements for Residential Care Facilities
We welcome the publication of the updated COVID-19 ‘Normalizing Visiting In Long Term Residential Care Facilities’ released on January 10th 2022. […]
Support for Grieving in Exceptional Times
Free Irish Hospice Foundation bereavement resource pack to help those living with loss during COVID-19 Today (16 February 2021) we launched our free bereavement resource pack, ‘Support for Grieving in Exceptional Times’ as we approach 4,000 COVID-19 deaths. It includes all the resources developed as part of IHF’s Care & Inform hub which was specially […]
IHF urges balance on Level 5 visiting restrictions for nursing homes
With current restrictions, we note the need for a change in current guidance in relation to visiting to nursing homes and other long term residential care facilities. […]
Bereavement support line Mon to Fri 10am to 1pm
In the face of the loss and trauma people are currently experiencing, the Bereavement Support Line, in partnership with the HSE, has been launched to provide connection, comfort and support, in these exceptional times. […]
Visit our COVID-19 Care & Inform hub on end-of-life and bereavement care
We at the Irish Hospice Foundation want to keep you, the Irish public, as informed and supported as possible in matters relating to end-of-life and bereavement care in these exceptional times. The need to provide reliable and up-to-date information for you, the public, and healthcare professionals is vital. With our many years of experience, we […]
IHF welcomes government changes to visiting restrictions for nursing homes
Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) wrote to NPHET in early November urging them to look at visiting in nursing and care homes and are delighted to see that their recommendations have been taken on board. Sharon Foley, CEO of IHF says: “Our work with nursing homes and residential care homes all over Ireland gave us a […]
National Grief Awareness Week is more poignant than any previous year
This week, National Grief Awareness Week, coming at the end of the traditional month for remembering those we’ve loved and lost, is all the more reflective and thought provoking in 2020. Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) recognises we are a nation united in grief more than ever before, for those we have lost due to Covid-19, […]
Latest COVID-19 restrictions will impact the elderly in nursing and care homes
Tuesday 20 October 2020 Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) has today welcomed the updated guidance from Government and NPHET on attending funerals but is calling on the Government to relook at visiting restrictions in nursing and care homes announced last night. From midnight tomorrow night, nursing and care home visits will cease, except in critical and […]
