Alzheimer’s patients moved from unit

MORE than a dozen elderly Alzheimer’s patients are to be moved from a Dublin hospital and placed in private replacement facilities when the specialist unit, opened just nine months ago, is temporarily closed later this year.

Over the coming days, 16 Alzheimer’s sufferers being treated at Cherry Orchard Hospital will be moved from the specialist Beech unit to alternative facilities as a direct result of staffing concerns at the unit over the summer months.

The move has been criticised by families of those being moved as a hurdle for the elderly patients at the facility to overcome.