Daughter of nursing home resident describes distressing scenes at Beneavin Manor

Helen, whose name has been changed, has an elderly father with vascular dementia who lives at the Beneavin Manor home in Glasnevin, north Dublin. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos
The daughter of a man living in a nursing home which is at the centre of a controversy over the ill-treatment of its elderly residents has told how she repeatedly witnessed things in the home which made her “feel uncomfortable”.
Helen, whose name has been changed, has an elderly father with vascular dementia who lives at the Beneavin Manor home in Glasnevin, north Dublin. She said she was “terrified” over what she would see in an programme broadcast this week about the standard of care in the facility.