1. Public Education
Engaging Dementia
Engaging Dementia’s mission is to improve communication, engagement and connection for people living with dementia and their carers through education, resources and community activities.
Home Instead is proud to be the main sponsor of Engaging Dementia’s annual International Dementia conference which attracts expert speakers in the dementia care space nationally and internationally.
The event is attended by people living with dementia, their families, healthcare professionals, academics and those with an interest in creating a more inclusive society for people living with dementia.
Understand Together
Home Instead is a partner of the Understand Together campaign.
Understand Together is a public support, awareness and information campaign led by the HSE, working with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland (ASI) and Genio campaign.
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is the professional voice of nurses and midwives in Ireland with over 90 years of experience and achievement.
Home Instead is a proud supporter of the organisation having sponsored the annual Public Health Nurse of the Year Awards and its annual conference.
We understand just how important the members are to ensuring those Home Instead cares for remain living safe and well in their community.
2. Charities
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Home Instead supports the Alzheimer Society of Ireland by raising funds through charity events such as the annual tea party on 4th May and the distribution of content that will be of great support to people living with dementia and their families. We also share and promote ASI content and events to support people living with dementia and their families.
Offices throughout the country are very passionate about supporting the dementia care space and this great charity.
Ronald McDonald House
Ronald McDonald House’s mission is to provide accommodation and a caring, supportive environment for families whose children are undergoing medical treatment at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin, Dublin.
What matters most to Ronald McDonald House is keeping families close and this resonates with Home Instead.
Home Instead employees have worked together to prepare meals for families availing of the house and raised funds to support the charity's exceptional work.
Local communities working together
Home Instead's offices throughout the country support a variety of local charities that are special to our clients, employees and communities.
We understand the importance of caring for our local community and that by working together we can help more people enjoy the life they want to live.
3. Public Affairs
Safeguarding Ireland
Safeguarding Ireland promotes safeguarding of vulnerable adults to protect them from all forms of abuse by persons, organisations and institutions and to develop a national plan for promoting their welfare.
Home Instead is proud to have signed the Safeguarding Charter to show our commitment to protect the health, well-being and human rights of individuals, which allows people – especially children, young people and vulnerable adults – to live free from abuse, harm and neglect.
Home & Community Care Ireland
Home Instead is a founding member of Home & Community Care Ireland (HCCI); a national membership organisation for companies that provide a managed home care service in Ireland, uniting members who directly care for thousands of older and vulnerable people in their homes.
Its mission is to advocate for, and represent, a unified professional home care service through leadership, experience and good governance; and that the highest standard of regulated home care service is made available to citizens on a statutory basis, enabling people to retain familiarity and independent living within their homes and communities.
Home Care Providers Alliance
Through our involvement with HCCI, Home Instead also helped to found the Home Care Providers Alliance in 2022.
The Home Care Providers Alliance represents more than half of the those providing home care in Ireland - whether community and voluntary organisations, private providers or family carers.
The Alliance's report "The Future of Home Care" was launched in March 2022.
Read it here.
The Global Coalition on Aging
We partner with the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), the world’s leading business voice on ageing-related policy and strategy.
The GCOA work to educate and influence around the world on their core view that worldwide ageing is an opportunity to provide solutions that improve the health, productivity, and social engagement of older people around the world. They partner with academics, businesses, and others around the world.
In Ireland, they produced a paper “The Safest Place to Age: Mapping the Path to Statutory Home Care in Ireland” which gathered together policy insights from an expert roundtable that they convened.
They also produced the 2021 “Global Workforce Report”, which highlights the need around to world to elevate the role of carers with a view to meeting the challenges being faced in meeting the demand for care around the world.
Read 'The Safest Place to Age: Mapping the Path to Statutory Home Care in Ireland.
Read the 'Global Workforce Report 2021.
4. Research & Innovation
SEURO
Home Instead is a partner on the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project SEURO.
Led by Trinity College Dublin, the project aims to find out how technology can support people over the age of 65 who are living with two or more chronic health conditions to better self-manage their conditions at home, and hopefully improve healthcare outcomes across a range of health and wellbeing metrics.
The research includes trials in Ireland, Sweden, Belgium, and Italy.
For more information or to get involved read more here.
