Health inspectors urge homes to tag dementia sufferers

HEALTH inspectors have asked nursing homes to tag dementia patients with an electronic monitoring system, so they can’t wander outside, the owner of one premises has revealed.

Blair’s Hill Nursing Home, Sunday’s Well, Cork, breached several care regulations when inspected in April, a Health Service Executive (HSE) report found.

Among concerns raised was “securing the home against the risk of mobile patients with dementia wandering” from the facility, which has been an “ongoing” issue there since February 2006.