Calling cyclists to participate in our annual European fundraising challenge cycle! Irish Hospice Foundation has launched details of its IHF Cycle Challenge for 2025 and is urging cycling enthusiasts to sign up for this exciting annual event. This is the largest in-person fundraiser in the Irish Hospice Foundation calendar, and this year the cycle route […]
Your support and kindness ensures our vital programmes and services — such as Nurses for Night Care, the Bereavement Support Line, and our new Information and Support Line — continue to reach people across Ireland facing end of life and bereavement. There are many ways you can get involved and support our work this year. […]
Sooner or later, all of us will face our final hours. But choosing how, where, and who is there when you leave this world makes all the difference. This is how your kindness is bringing the comfort and consideration they may not otherwise have felt to older people in nursing homes across Ireland. […]
Launching National Grief Awareness Week Irish Hospice Foundation Launches National Grief Awareness Week Amidst Increase in Demand for Bereavement Support at End of 2024 Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is launching its fifth annual National Grief Awareness Week, taking place from 27th January to 2nd February. Throughout the year, IHF supports those who are bereaved through […]
Common Myths About Grief National Grief Awareness Week Myth: If you don’t cry, you’re not grieving. Reality: Grief is expressed and felt in different ways. For most of us, the death of someone close is one of the hardest things we’ll ever experience. Losing a loved one brings deep pain, and grief is the process […]
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 […]
Irish Hospice Foundation welcomes the commitments to dying, death and bereavement in the draft Programme for Government because every death matters, and we only have one chance to get it right. We were pleased to note that the draft Programme included a number of our key asks, including: Reform of the coroner service is long overdue and […]
A transformative free learning programme, supporting the delivery of compassionate and person-centred care in Ireland’s nursing homes, is marking two years since it officially launched. The Caru programme was set up on foot of recommendations from the Covid-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel Review Report, which showed that 79 percent of notified deaths during the pandemic occurred […]
We’d like to thank you for your continued support throughout 2024. Your kindness ensures our vital programmes and services — such as Nurses for Night Care, the Bereavement Support Line, and our new Information and Support Line — continue to reach people across Ireland facing end of life and bereavement. There are many ways you […]
General Election 2024 is slightly more than a week away, and almost all parties and candidates have released manifestos and details of their key areas of focus. Irish Hospice Foundation has prepared the following five questions for the public to ask their local political candidates in advance of the election in the areas of end-of-life […]
