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CHILDREN’S HOSPICE LAURALYNN is to launch a home care service, called the LauraLynn@Home programme.
This announcement was made during Children’s Hospice Week, and is an “exciting new direction”, the charity said.
How it will work
The new service will bring the expertise and care that children currently receive at LauraLynn into the family home on a 12-month trial basis.
A team of LauraLynn nurses and health care assistants will provide hands-on care in the home – including respite, transitional, crisis and end-of-life care.
The LauraLynn@Home pilot programme will be available in the following areas for the next 12 months:
Who will use it?
LauraLynn estimates that approximately 50 families will avail of this service during the trial period. The pilot project will run for one year and it is estimated it will cost €800,000.
All of the money for this additional service has come from publicly donated funds, with the majority of this coming from the recent Half Million Half Marathon event organised by Ray D’Arcy and Today FM.
Julie Ling, Head of Strategic Development at LauraLynn, said that international evidence suggests that the majority of parents, where possible, “wish to care for their child at home with the appropriate supports”.
“LauraLynn@Home will work with colleagues in the community and aims to provide families with more choices,” she said. “Our aim is to provide the same high standard of care, regardless of whether the child is cared for in LauraLynn House or in the child’s own home.”
Jane McKenna, mother of Laura and Lynn, said:
It is our hope and belief that this new service will eventually bridge the gap for hundreds of families who require the support of LauraLynn but who want to have their child at home.
LauraLynn is the only children’s hospice in Ireland.
An evaluation of the project will be conducted by UCD, which LauraLynn said “will ensure that services are meeting the needs of the child and family and provided in the most appropriate format and structure”.
It is hoped that it can be rolled out to other areas of the country on a phased basis, following review.
In order to be eligible for the LauraLynn@Home pilot project, children must meet the standard admission criteria for the hospice. This information can be found on lauralynn.ie, or email home@lauralynn.ie for further information.
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Once should be put on first plane out of country once finished his time
@KevinMunster: Racist because he wants a thug deported. Are you for real
@KevinMunster: What is racist about deporting the bad bollix.
@Celtic_Horizon: should be thrown out of the plane over the Atlantic you mean ,but dont let the bleeding heart nut jobs know
@Ciaran Kehoe: Racist are you fu€k!ng kidding me. Your talking to irish man born in uk who has lived in usa. And believe me I have gotten more greaf from my own kin than I did from brits or yanks. But lets be clear I believe that anyone that isn’t irish causing trouble should be kicked out as I do any Irish living in other countries, if they are booted out should be sent home although if there plane found it’s plane landed in Siberia it wouldn’t be worst thing to happen. Toss pot
@Celtic_Horizon: sorry aimed at KevinMunster
Who could have predicted a man with multiple previous convictions in multiple different countries would commit crime in our country? Keep that door open! #criminalswelcome
Nothing works better than a ‘warning shot’ straight into the mush.
@Paul Culligan: You honestly couldnt make it up, think of the amount of money this investiagation cost the state after a shaky garda with a gun!
@Paul Culligan: He probably sang like a canary after that.
Freedom of movement seems to have as many minuses as advantages..hard to believe criminal gangs can move about Europe so freely
@Kieran OKeeffe: freedom of movement ensures the easy Islamisation ,whatever percentage of Muslims involved ,of the west. Don’t believe me ? Check out western Europe today and the census
@ Kieran this has f*ck all to do with Islam! Gee you must see Islam in everything, this article is about ram raiders… Did you need read the article?
Stop hyping up the threat of Islamic extremism, it’s all hype and the media are just as much to blame for hyping it up and the extremists themselves
With several prior convictions for theft in Holland and Norway, how or why was he ever allowed into Ireland? Seriously searching for an answer to this simple question.
How about a worldwide rule that criminals are not allowed to travel?
It would help to stop people making the choice to become a criminal.
@Scundered: He wouldn’t get into Australia or Canada anyway based on the border security shows I’ve seen.
Likewise he probably wouldn’t get into the uk once they brexit and start to pull up the plank..
How do you weigh a car with a concrete block? :/
5 year jail sentence, out in 3 for good behaviour. More nonsense from Tom O’Donnell, another joke of a judge.
Euthanasia is the answer to this guy!
I didn’t know trannies and cross dressers were so desperate to get their fix.
GET RID OF HIM
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