Letter to the Editor: Elderly want their own homes

A number of headlines on last week’s newspapers give no cause for celebration for elderly people living in Ireland.

Headlines such as “Dáil must debate plan to cut home help hours”, “4,000 elderly wait 24 hours in A&E” and “Revised Fair Deal rules on fees to be backdated,” make for depressing news for our vulnerable elderly. In addition to this, according to a recent report in the Irish Examiner, the government is now exploring ways to entice older people to move out of family homes in order to release housing stock to young families.