Elderly care project hit by year-long delay

A PROJECT to install CCTV cameras in housing schemes, occupied by elderly people, has yet to be implemented a year after being announced.

Separately, the Government has been accused of shelving a report which would standardise social alarm services for elderly people.

The delays emerged on a day when the Government made an appeal for St Patrick’s Day to be seen “as an occasion to recognise the enormous contribution of older people” to the building of the modern economy. But the Government itself has been slow to act on two key elements of elderly care.