Person: Amanda Phelan

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Eight deceased residents of Laois elder-care centre tested positive for Covid-19, HSE confirms

The 17 remaining residents at the Maryborough Centre for Psychiatry of Old Age (which is not a nursing home), are being treated as if they are Covid-19 positive

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Call for safeguarding legislation to protect vulnerable adults

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Community nurses forced to miss giving care to older people, survey reveals

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Report claims Ireland has not increased the number of community nurses in four decades

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Medic warns of nurse shortage in care home sector

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Community nurses do not intervene in elder abuse cases - Study

Abuse of the elderly - We can no longer say we do not know

Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and there is a conference at University College Dublin to mark the occasion. In January, the Irish Examiner disclosed that the existing 26 elder abuse officers reported 927 cases of elder abuse in the second half of 2007.

Fri, 13 Jun, 2008

HSE accused of reneging on promise to investigate home

ADVOCATES of the elderly are concerned that health chiefs are rolling back on a promise to independently investigate practices at a Co Clare public nursing home.

Mon, 22 Oct, 2007