nursing homes

Q&A: Timing of selling the family home can have a significant impact on the finances of the nursing home resident

Our population is ageing at the fastest rate in Europe, our nursing homes are dealing with a viability crunch and there aren’t enough new beds coming on stream. Here’s what needs to happen

Mary Bartley-Meehan’s husband had a head wound infested with maggots on arrival at hospital. He died less than three weeks later

Recent closures more related to funding issues than desire to change business model, says industry group

One in three private nursing homes lost money last year, according to PwC analysis

Rate of disease circulating in the community was ‘key determinant’ of outbreaks in care homes, according to ESRI

Latest nursing home forced to close due to ‘underfunding’ from Fair Deal scheme

Social activity an essential part of life in care facilities, new HSE guidelines emphasise

Government seem unlikely to adopt such an approach; human rights and care organisations have written to the IHREC asking it to intervene

Applying for Fair Deal is a sensible move, but there is no liability on either a home or the HSE to refund any monies billed before a person is approved

Decision to remove stipulation to pay portion of rent towards cost of care criticised

The Alliance network of smaller homes argues that large multi-nursing home operators do not face same risks as smaller ones

Q&A: Fair Deal makes sense for most people and recent changes to rules should reinforce that

St Mary’s nursing home had seen one of worst Covid-19 outbreaks in first wave

Vulnerable elderly have been subjected to obfuscation around their entitlement to nursing home care and the so-called Fair Deal scheme still neglects to include all the things they need

Q&A: Daughter is juggling dead father’s tax returns, repayment of Fair Deal loan and probate – but play Revenue straight and you’ll find them very helpful

In excess of 1,450 bodies from local community groups to national service suppliers will get funds

Robert Watt says there are about 200 legal claims outstanding over historical private nursing home charges

Attorney General’s report on nursing home charges masks basic question of how a democracy should respond to violation of constitutional order in layers of evasion

Ireland’s largest private nursing home provider reports details of planned recapitalisation alongside 8% rise in fourth-quarter revenue

Nursing homes expect serial testing to return next week as six new outbreaks reported

Visa delays for nurses from outside Europe hamper management of staff shortages

Geriatrician says it would be ‘wrong to pretend’ older people more resilient to disease

New figures show how State has failed to protect nursing home residents

Infected residents should be moved to hospital only if it would ‘confer additional benefit’, guidance said

Concern expressed as 17 clusters of Covid-19 infection are identified in nursing homes