Month: March 2012

The Irish Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil Day is running today with the charity hoping to raise €3.5 million this year. More than 3,000 volunteers are out on the streets raising funds which will be used to provide cancer information and support services. Today marks the 25th anniversary of the event. Here at Be Independent Home Care our home care assistants operating in the community, caring […]

The Irish Times report that Ruairí Quinn has told the Dáil that cutbacks in entitlements to the elderly were “not anywhere on the horizon, nor are they contemplated”. He said whatever future budgetary decisions were made would be communicated to the House in the normal way. “Having completed our first year in office, it is the intention of the Government, over the next four years, […]

Here at Be Independent Home Care we heartily welcome the recent report published by the Law Reform Commission recommending that the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) should be given the power to set standards and regulate professional home care services. As one of the few independent, fully Nurse owned and managed home care providers in Ireland we are deeply concerned that the home care […]

This years Parkinson’s Awareness Week will take place from the 9th to the 15th of April 2012. The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland hope to launch the week around the 2nd of April and the Association are asking all Branches to host at least one event during the awareness week. This is the second awareness week for the Parkinson’s Association of Ireland. To read more about […]

Be Independent Home Care continue their series of complimentary Health & Wellness Presentations to The Carers Association on the 6th of March 2012 in The Grand Hotel. The Carers Association is Ireland’s national voluntary organisation for and of family carers in the home. Family carers provide high levels of care to a range of people including frail older people, people with severe disabilities, the terminally […]