Our Lady's Hospice help patients come to terms with dying

Helping patients come to terms with their situation is just one of many care services provided by the staff of Our Lady’s Hospice, writes Alison O’Connor.

Jim is sitting by his bed with a lovely blue and grey knitted blanket over his knees. The doctor is teasing him, saying he must really have charmed his carer that she knitted him such a lovely blanket.

Jim, in his 70s and a patient at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, chats for a few minutes, but clearly he has something on his mind.