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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
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- Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- ISSN
- 1366-3666
- DOI
- 10.1108/13663666200700048
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Abstract
Feature Mervyn Taylor Irish Hospice Foundation Hospice Foundation was sufficiently concerned to undertake a feasibility The Hospice study, followed by a pilot project, to examine how a comprehensive approach could be developed to change the culture of care Friendly and organisation regarding dying, death and bereavement in hospitals. The pilot project (2004–2006) was Hospitals undertaken at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, in partnership with the Health Service (HfH) Executive (HSE). It was one of three winners of the 2006 Public Service Programme Excellence Awards selected to represent Ireland in Europe. The In this article, Mervyn Taylor explains about the Atlantic Philanthropies supported the Foundation Hospice Friendly Hospitals Programme in during 2006 in using the learning from the project Ireland, which, using an inter-agency approach, to inform the planning and development of a is seeking to change the culture towards death national programme. and dying in hospitals by mainstreaming hospice principles in hospital practice. Mainstreaming hospice Each year almost 30,000 people die in Ireland. These deaths are increasingly associated with older principles age and with chronic illness and, despite the fact that a large majority of people wish to die at home, Following the pilot, the Foundation has
Journal
Working with Older People – Emerald Publishing
Published: Sep 1, 2007