€120m home care scheme suffering from flaws: report

A €120 million state home care packages scheme — which provides food and care to 8,000 elderly people who would otherwise be placed in long-term care — is riddled with problems and unable to function because of chronic failures in the system.

A report by the National Economic Social Forum (NESF) has found that the vital service is suffering from a series of structural flaws in the HSE.

According to the NESF, elderly people are facing different eligibility criteria for services depending on where they live, resulting in repeated means testing for applications.