A new healthcare investment fund has been launched which will result in the creation of Ireland’s largest residential care group.

Up to a thousand men and women may be held against their will in care homes around the country.

The Áras Attracta care home is no longer being threatened with closure.

The health watchdog has said that the Áras Attracta care home is no longer under threat of closure, but it says that concerns remain.

A care worker has received a police caution after shocking hidden camera footage showed her repeatedly slapping an elderly woman with dementia in her own home.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) used 9,000 euro of savings belonging to intellectually disabled people in a scandal-hit care home to buy them tablet computers.

A St John of God’s care home, where a resident required hospital treatment after ingesting latex gloves, is still failing to safeguard its charges, despite repeated warnings from the health watchdog.

More than 200 accidents and incidents were recorded last year at one care centre run by St John of God, watchdogs have revealed.

Residents at a centre for people with disabilities were punished through the removal of personal items, restrictions on food, and the issuing of fines. Hiqa has ordered that the practices be stopped immediately.

The family of the young girl known as ‘Sarah’ who was savagely abused in the Grace foster home have been denied access to her medical records for more than two years, despite apologies from the HSE for failing her, writes Daniel McConnell.

An investigation is under way into why a HSE-funded care home failed to provide timely medical intervention to a disabled person who is now very ill — despite requests from the person’s mother to intervene on her adult child’s behalf.

The 26-year-old man suspected of carrying out a mass stabbing attack that left 19 people dead at a Japanese care home for the mentally disabled has been moved from a local police station to the prosecutor’s office in Yokohama.

A new HIQA report into a nursing home in Waterford has found evidence of residents being ignored.

Six people have appeared in court in Co Mayo charged with assault at the Áras Attracta care home for people with disabilities.

A care facility for people with severe disabilities cleared a staff member of any wrong doing and allowed him return to work before his conviction for sexually abusing a woman with the mental age of three, a court heard today.