Minister plans supported housing for the elderly

A new supported model of housing for the elderly is being developed by the minister of state for older people, Jim Daly.

Mr Daly is working with the Department of Health and the Department of Housing to provide community-focused hub developments for elderly people which would be serviced by the HSE.

“We are going to have to look at a stepdown model of care with the Department of Housing and the Department of Health where you would have housing for the elderly with supports on site such as day centres, meal-on-wheels, those kind of things,” he said. “We must give older people a choice that it isn’t a case of home or the nursing home. We must create an in-between.”