Irish Examiner view: Demand for elder care keeps rising

The nursing home sector — itself increasingly consolidated and sometimes owned by companies based abroad — is important

As much as some of us might like to think we will live forever, age pursues us regardless.

On Friday, our lead editorial noted this wealthy State’s seeming inability to cater for its most vulnerable people — in that case, how our schools are not adequately resourced to support pupils with special needs.

But Friday's edition, too, carried a report highlighting that it’s not just our youngest cohort who are being let down, but our oldest too.