A nursing home providing care for people with dementia in Bruree, Co Limerick, was told to remove bolts from bedroom doors by the State's health services watchdog.

The president of the High Court has described as "reprehensible" the posting of a video on social media of an elderly man, a ward of court with advanced dementia, in a nursing home.

Thousands of farming families who place elderly relatives in nursing homes will see crippling costs capped after three years under new Fair Deal rules changes to be backed by cabinet today.

Thousands of farming families who place elderly relatives in nursing homes will see crippling costs capped after three years under new Fair Deal rules changes to be backed by cabinet tomorrow.

A scathing inspection report from the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) found that the nursing home "failed to ensure that an effective and safe service was provided for residents".

Almost half of nursing homes recently inspected by Hiqa have been found to be non-compliant.

The HSE has been accused of being "imprudent" in unilaterally cutting the number of people whose nursing home care will be funded under the Fair Deal scheme next year.

Legislation to end the risk of farm or business assets being decimated by nursing home changes is official Government policy, and it will be backdated when it is passed into law, according to Jim Daly, Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for Mental Health and Older People.

A nursing home in Co Cork has been found to be in breach of fourteen health regulations by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA).

A new 36-bed wing at one of the country’s leading retirement villages, Bon Secours Care Village, Mount Desert, Cork, has been opened with the creation of 32 jobs.

Everybody involved seems to benefit when kids from playschools visit nursing homes, writes Geraldine Walsh.

Nursing Homes Ireland says there are 'significant drawbacks' in the Government's Fair Deal scheme for nursing homes.

A man was secretly recorded in a nursing home threatening and verbally abusing his mother, the High Court has heard.

An unsolicited tip-off led health inspectors to discover that 28 staff members had resigned from a Laois nursing home in a four-month period last year.

Hiqa has raised concerns over staffing levels at a nursing home.

The HSE made the partner of an elderly man feel culpable for his “predictable and preventable death” within 30 minutes of transfer from hospital to a nursing home, even though she had no input into the decision to move him.

Yesterday’s Hiqa report that elderly residents were restrained and left in soiled incontinence wear at a Beaumont hospital nursing home underlines that we may have to, sooner or later, bring the same legislative energy to end of life issues as we now focus on the other end of that cycle.

A Hiqa inspection has found a centre based in Dublin to be majorly non-compliant across a number of areas.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has confirmed that it is examining information it received about potential anti-competitive conduct in the private nursing home sector.

“Granny dumping” in nursing homes, pilfering from pensions, and lack of clear obligation on the State to protect vulnerable adults are among the reasons adult safeguarding legislation was needed, an Oireachtas committee heard.

A nursing home which had been prevented from permitting entry to new residents due to issues raised in previous Hiqa inspections was still allowing admissions, a report has found.

The State’s health services watchdog had to stop some private nursing homes from charging residents additional fees to keep their facilities up to standard, a Dáil committee was told.

Providing “homely care” within the nursing home sector is made more difficult by unfair ageism and stigma, a report reveals.

Nursing homes are denying charging residents for Mass.

Elderly people are to be given more flexibility in how they fund their care needs, under radical plans being developed by the Government.

An elderly couple, inseparable during 63 years of marriage, wept yesterday as they pleaded to be reunited after being split up by red tape governing the Fair Deal nursing home scheme.

“The fact is we just love each other...It’s a nightmare for me. And it’s a nightmare, I’m sure, for my lovely wife."

Today marks the beginning of Nursing Homes Week, an initiative that highlights the positivity of nursing home care in Ireland.

The State has been accused by Nursing Home Ireland (NHI) of abusing its dominant position in the nursing home sector.

The cost of keeping a patient in a HSE run nursing home is as much as €700 a week higher than private facilities.

The Health and Information Quality Authority has raised concerns over the safety, staffing, and management of medication at a number of nursing homes.

A man who killed nine people and injured nine others in a Chinese nursing home has been sentenced to death, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The HSE is being urged to stop the closure of thousands of beds at state-run nursing homes.

A HIQA inspection found there were inadequate shower and toilet facilities and staff shortages in a nursing home in Roscommon town.

Private nursing home residents cannot complain to watchdog while those in public nursing homes can

Serious shortcomings have again been identified in a private nursing home visited five times over the last five years by inspectors from the Health Information and Quality Authority.

Minister for Older People Kathleen Lynch has ruled out seeking any increase in contributions from the elderly towards the cost of their nursing home care despite an expert report which says such options should be considered.