Irish Examiner view: Why we all need to plan for the future

Safeguarding Ireland revealed how few people are making provision for the eventuality that they will become incapacitated

HSE chief Bernard Gloster with Safeguarding Ireland chairwoman Patricia Rickard Clarke at this week's seminar launching Adult Safeguarding Day. Picture: Conor Healy

Just recently we were complaining that Ireland is grievously under-prepared for the consequences of our ageing population with a lack of strategic thinking which will damage us in the years ahead.

On that occasion it was in the context of a memo released to the HSE by its chief executive urging more rapid discharge of older hospital patients to nursing homes whether they are convenient or not for individuals or their families.