Today, The Alliance of Age Sector NGOs (of which IHF is a member) launches its 2023 Report, ‘Telling It Like It Is; Combatting Ageism,’ which sets out why Ireland needs to take ageism seriously and take meaningful action to counteract it. The report highlights the nature and impact of ageism in Ireland and offers several […]
As proud members of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland (NAI), IHF support this important campaign – Patients Deserve Better. The nationwide campaign is calling for a network of community neurorehabilitation teams throughout the country. […]
This Act is long overdue and very much needed as it maximises a person’s capacity to make decisions through all stages of their life, including through the legal protection of Advance Healthcare Directives. […]
Today we launched a report detailing the impact of bereavement on home life in Ireland, including the impact on employment, health and the overall financial burden. Read the Summary Report of The Real Financial Impact of Bereavement. The study which completed in early 2022 was supported by a grant from the Department of Social Protection. […]
Key priorities include: Resourcing a national approach to palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care; Quality end-of-life care, wherever the place; Investment in community bereavement supports; Support the public to plan for their end of life […]
We welcome today’s announcement by An Taoiseach Michéal Martin of €20 million in capital funding for a new specialist palliative care inpatient unit for the Midlands. […]
Friday 19th November 2021 Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) welcomes the announcement that a Special Oireachtas Committee will be established in early 2022 to examine the issue of assisted dying. The formation of the Special Committee was recommended earlier this year by the Oireachtas Justice Committee. In July the Justice Committee found that Dying with Dignity Bill […]
Dying, Death and Bereavement are Everyone’s Business.Irish Hospice Foundation calls for an investment of €2.4 million in Budget 2022 in Dying, Death and Bereavement. We must provide support for a nation that has been profoundly changed by COVID-19 […]
Older people have expressed the heightened challenges they faced during COVID-19 and called for a post-pandemic focus on regaining their positive role in society – according to a new hard-hitting review launched today. […]
Thursday 22 July 2021 Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) welcomes the Joint Committee on Justice recommendation that an Oireachtas Special Committee be established to undertake an examination of assisted dying. In our submission in January of this year to the Joint Committee on Justice on the Dying with Dignity Bill, we called for the absolute necessity of public debate on the issue of assisted dying. The […]
