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Original Source by Barbara Harding DEATH is a frightening subject that few of us like to think about, never mind discuss, but it comes to us all eventually and often in an unexpected manner. Ensuring our environment offers us grace, dignity and respect in our…

Towards 2016 Ten-Year Framework Social Partnership Agreement 2006 - 2015 PRESS RELEASE The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) welcomes the provision in the new Social Partnership agreement to prioritise hospice care over the next three years by further developing palliative care throughout Ireland, with particular reference…

Awaiting devastating news of a loved one in a hospital is harrowing for family members. The Design & Dignity Programme is creating comfortable, homey spaces in the wards to soften the experience. [caption id="attachment_80071" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] In 2011, the Mater Hospital received a grant to…

by Grainne Cunningham NO-ONE should have to endure the "fear and the pain and the dread" that goes with terminal illness without the sort of palliative care received by writer Nuala O'Faolain in her dying days, her old friend Marian Finucane said last night. Ms…