The inquest into the death of an elderly woman who died in a nursing home has found that suffocation by smothering with a pillow was the cause of death, in line with “circumstantial evidence”, even though there were no “identifiable” asphyxial signs on her body.

A man has been charged with the manslaughter of his mother at a nursing home in Co Waterford.

MANAGEMENT at the nursing home where an elderly resident was killed early on Monday morning have expressed their sadness following the woman’s death.

Gardaí say they are now treating as murder the death of a woman at a nursing home in Waterford.

THE latest batch of nursing home inspections reveal a litany of substandard conditions and care at a number of facilities.