Up to 2,500 terminally-ill patients are denied access to hospice inpatient care each year because of the lack of services nationwide. A new report by the Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) found three times as many hospice beds are needed in the country to meet demand. The report notes that one way to use resources more effectively is to divert them towards more hospice home […]
Retirement Care Services http://www.retirementservices.ie/index is a really useful and easy to use website that provides the public with on-line access to a directory of providers related to the Care Industry in Ireland. It contains information on services such as home care, registered nursing and convalescent homes and retirement centres. Their aim is to guide you through a comprehensive list of Nursing Homes/Care facilities/Retirement Villages/HomeCare […]
Here at Be Independent Home Care with our home care assistants operating in the community, we see first-hand the marvelous care that family carers deliver. Our trained home care assistants often provide care in the home to enable family carers to take much needed breaks. Family carers were unfairly targeted with a savage 19% cut to their respite care grant in budget 2013. This […]
Be Independent Home Care are approved members of Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI) and so must adhere to a strict code of conduct based on international best practice guidelines for home care services and are independently audited by third parties. At Be Independent Home Care we are proud to report that we have just undergone this comprehensive independent audit and are members of the HCCI. […]
Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI) is the trade association representing private home care providers in Ireland. Home and Community Care Ireland represents quality providers of in home care. In the absence of State regulation of home care services, HCCI members adhere to a strict code of conduct based on international best practice guidelines which is independently audited by third parties. All HCCI members commit […]
A reminder that this week is National Carers Week (10th – 16th June). With 270,000 adults over the age of 15 providing care in the home, this is a great opportunity to promote the contribution of Family Carers. Family carers provide high levels of care at home and have to juggle demands on their time and energy often leaving no time for themselves which can lead to […]
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