Light Up a Life

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Your generosity and kindness will help ensure our nurses and team continue to provide compassionate and specialist care for patients in our hospices and within their homes.

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By supporting Light Up A Life, you are bringing comfort and relief to many patients and their families.
Specialist Palliative Care

Light Up A Life is all about – making a memory and making a difference. By sponsoring a Christmas Light you’ll be remembering someone who is important
to you – their vital life and legacy – and you’ll be joining in a community of kindness, support and celebration.

Just read Ger Kelly’s story. A hospice patient in Blackrock Hospice, Ger, 39, is living with a life limiting illness, and wishes to support our Light Up A Life appeal.

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Complementary Therapies

The Complementary & Creative Arts therapies Department has been an integrated part of our services since 1994. They play a key role in the holistic care of our patients and residents. The team provides a range of supports to patients including aromatherapy, massage, reflexology, relaxation and meditation techniques.

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Extended Care

Our care isn’t just about medical care. It’s social, cultural and spiritual too. Anna Gaynor House is a purpose-built eighty-nine bedded residential unit providing a safe and comfortable living environment to those with high dependencies who require 24-hour nursing care. All residents benefit from working with a multidisciplinary team, regular exercise classes and multisensory work such as music and art therapy etc.

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Blackrock Hospice Transformation

Since opening its doors in 2003, Blackrock Hospice has provided vital palliative care services that have helped tens of thousands of patients and their families.

We have completed our ambitious refurbishment of the 12 bed unit.

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Wicklow Hospice

Your help changes lives every day.
Hilary Mills, Clinical Nurse Manager, speaks about the difference Wicklow Hospice makes to the community.

”People say to me a lot – it must be a sad job. But for me it’s about what I can give to it. And the positive, life-enhancing and inspiring atmosphere that’s created between patients and staff.”

Read her story
Specialist Palliative Care

Light Up A Life is all about – making a memory and making a difference. By sponsoring a Christmas Light you’ll be remembering someone who is important
to you – their vital life and legacy – and you’ll be joining in a community of kindness, support and celebration.

Just read Ger Kelly’s story. A hospice patient in Blackrock Hospice, Ger, 39, is living with a life limiting illness, and wishes to support our Light Up A Life appeal.

Complementary Therapies

The Complementary & Creative Arts therapies Department has been an integrated part of our services since 1994. They play a key role in the holistic care of our patients and residents. The team provides a range of supports to patients including aromatherapy, massage, reflexology, relaxation and meditation techniques.

Extended Care

Our care isn’t just about medical care. It’s social, cultural and spiritual too. Anna Gaynor House is a purpose-built eighty-nine bedded residential unit providing a safe and comfortable living environment to those with high dependencies who require 24-hour nursing care. All residents benefit from working with a multidisciplinary team, regular exercise classes and multisensory work such as music and art therapy etc.

Blackrock Hospice Transformation

Since opening its doors in 2003, Blackrock Hospice has provided vital palliative care services that have helped tens of thousands of patients and their families.

We have completed our ambitious refurbishment of the 12 bed unit.

Wicklow Hospice

Your help changes lives every day.
Hilary Mills, Clinical Nurse Manager, speaks about the difference Wicklow Hospice makes to the community.

”People say to me a lot – it must be a sad job. But for me it’s about what I can give to it. And the positive, life-enhancing and inspiring atmosphere that’s created between patients and staff.”