Working Life: I find resilience in the face of suffering remarkable

Louise Casey, principal medical social worker, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services (OLH & CS), Harold’s Cross, Dublin.

Louise, Casey, Principal Medical Social Worker at Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services in Harolds Cross, Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney

“When I started with OLH about 30 years ago, the plaque on the gate in Harold’s Cross read ‘Hospice for the Dying’. That’s no longer the case. People come to us for symptom control, and have the benefit of our specialist palliative care, and then they can go home again.

“We have a residential rehabilitation unit in Harold’s Cross too for people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease and a separate community rehab unit where we help older people get the most out of their physical abilities.