Age Action warns against extra nursing home costs

Plans for nursing home residents to be hit with extra costs to have access to “toiletries” and other vital services would completely undermine existing policies meant to ensure their care.

Age Action Ireland issued the warning after revelations that the move could be forced through to cover HSE budget cutbacks being imposed on the system.

Earlier this week, the Irish Patients Association revealed Carysfort Nursing Home in Glenageary, in south Dublin, had sent a letter to the families of 30 residents advising they may have to pay an extra €720 a year.