Letters to the Editor: Integrated healthcare is making a difference to older people

Two readers offer first-hand perspectives on healthcare for older people in Ireland, while other readers consider issues including public sector pay, transport, and peace in the Middle East

Readers are responding to Niamh Griffin's article about the HSE's integrated care programme for older persons, ICPOP. Picture: iStock

Regarding Niamh Griffin’s article ‘Older patients feel right at home with integrated healthcare’ (Irish Examiner, September 18): This is wonderful. My husband died recently after a long illness. He had to be hospitalised every few months mainly for IV antibiotics for chest infections. 

He always came home weaker than he went in not due to the care he received but to the loneliness and isolation. He had mild dementia.