HSE unable to secure proper care placement for severely disabled woman 

Katherine Kelleher, solicitor for the HSE, told the court it has tried to find a more suitable placement but with no success, and the woman will have to stay in the nursing home for now.

The HSE has told the High Court it has been unable to secure an appropriate care placement, other than a nursing home, for a woman in her fifties who is severely physically disabled as a result of a progressive disorder.

The woman has been in a nursing home for five years following a crisis hospital admission said to have arisen from her inability to safely care for herself at home where she lived alone in conditions described as “very poor”.