Struggling to care: New scheme must bring improvements to homecare system
Sinn Féin's Louise O'Reilly said the elderly and carers are being let down. Photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Frustrations are growing among the thousands of older people waiting on homecare, as the system struggles to prepare for a new funding scheme which could make homecare as accessible as nursing homes.
Homecare should be the shining centre piece of plans to refocus care out of institutions and into people’s homes. Yet a working group has claimed a carer shortage “militates against the reorientation of care into the community to which the Government is committed under Sláintecare".
