A speech given by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese at the launch of the Forum on End-of-Life in Ireland, 2009.
Forum on End-of-Life Conference
A speech given by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese at the launch of the Forum on End-of-Life in Ireland, in Kilmanham Castle on 11th of March, 2009. The forum on end-of-life in Ireland aimed to engage the Irish public in a national conversation about death and dying.
The forum on end-of-life project began in 2009 with the forum on end-of-life consultations. The forum on end-of-life programme also initiated a conference to be held every two years to continue engaging the Irish public, health and social care professionals in issues related to death dying and bereavement.
President Mary McAleese.
Irish Hospice Foundation.
11th March, 2009.
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English and Irish.
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Perspectives on end-of-life; report of the forum 2009
The Forum on End-of-Life was designed by the Irish Hospice Foundation to engender greater public discussion on end of life and the care of those at the end of their lives. However, the exercise was also very much a listening one, to identify participants' views about end of life issues, and their wishes and aspirations for the care and treatment of those at end of life.
The Forum Report report brings together the views of those who contributed to the Forum by making submissions, by presenting papers to workshops, and by participating in discussions at workshops and public meetings. The Report is a comprehensive analysis of the rich and varied material - factual, experiential, theoretical - presented to the Forum. It is organised thematically into chapters, the themes having emerged organically in the course of the analysis. The report does not seek to present the latest national or international thinking on any aspect of palliative or end of life care. Its purpose is, rather, to communicate the main themes, messages and issues raised by contributors to the Forum. It thus provides a baseline document, which then informed a Draft Action Plan. This means that those who contributed to the process have played a key role in shaping the National Council of the Forum's current Work Plan.
Irish Hospice Foundation
Irish Hospice Foundation
2010
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Link to PDF report
http://www.lenus.ie/hse/bitstream/10147/141066/1/Perpectives_EndOfLife.pdf
Pictures from the first Forum on End-of-Life, March 2009
Attendees at the March 2009 forum on End of Life launch
Images of attendees at the March 2009 forum on the End of Life launch
march 2009
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Professor Allen Kellehear at the Forum meeting September 2009
Professor Allen Kellehear and the End of Life forum
Images of Professor Allen Kellehear speaking at the End of Life meeting on September 16 2009 at Fitzwilliam Hotel
16th September, 2009
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