nursing homes

Nursing home houses 35 residents who will have to find alternative accommodation, while 46 staff will be made redundant

Investment firms have been caught out by rising costs and higher interest rates

Four of the five largest providers in the State are foreign owned

Q&A: Failure to meet the timelines set down in the terms of the loan can see the sum owed rising

Q&A: Woman worries that cost of Fair Deal care if her mother needs long-term care could see her forced out of only home she has ever known

The reliance on for-profit care raises crucial questions about power, cost, the stance of the State and the status of older people

Minimum salary payable to healthcare assistants and home carers to increase to €27,000 from January

Almost 1,000 beds lost last year through closures or reductions in bed numbers, according to Hiqa

Documents highlight concerns over ‘precarious financial position’ of individual Aperee nursing homes

State’s healthcare regulator criticised serious staffing shortages in Castlebridge Manor nursing home

People gathering at former Great Southern Hotel say protest is not about immigration, but promises made about a new nursing home

Q&A: Front line staff were looking to charge you tens of thousands of euro more than they should over nursing home care

Three of the company’s nursing homes were closed by Hiqa over concerns for resident safety and other issues

Q&A: Property is not currently registered with Residential Tenancies Board and there are questions over tax compliance

Wider review of residents’ records over 16 years likely to find further incidents of ‘possible harm’

NHI conference hears calls for increased funding and better preparation for an ageing population

Gardaí treating death of resident in Cork as potential gross negligence manslaughter and see it as ‘test case’ for other pending investigations

Aperee Living in Ballygunner taken over by HSE due to ‘serious concerns about care and welfare of residents’

TLC Centre in Maynooth operated by a company in scandal-hit Orpea group, Ireland’s largest nursing home provider

Healthcare regulator raised concern over nursing homes passing on costs in extra resident charges

Private sector homes say State funding has sharply lagged rising costs and also warns about impact of national minimum wage rise

Q&A: Any loan agreed under Fair Deal scheme that subsidises nursing home care costs has to be repaid but there are options open to you

Broadcaster and neighbours had cited concern for local badgers in objections but An Bord Pleanála overrules council refusal for Bartra scheme

Seen & Heard: Duo line up Park Hotel bid; nursing home sector crisis; collapsed Irish crypto firm; Solar 21′s fees

Government has approved 15 principles for conducting litigation drafted by Attorney General following criticism of State’s past strategies

Q&A: What happens when another family member chooses to pay the bill due under Fair Deal?

Q&A: Timing of selling the family home can have a significant impact on the finances of the nursing home resident

Our population is ageing at the fastest rate in Europe, our nursing homes are dealing with a viability crunch and there aren’t enough new beds coming on stream. Here’s what needs to happen

Mary Bartley-Meehan’s husband had a head wound infested with maggots on arrival at hospital. He died less than three weeks later

Recent closures more related to funding issues than desire to change business model, says industry group

One in three private nursing homes lost money last year, according to PwC analysis

Rate of disease circulating in the community was ‘key determinant’ of outbreaks in care homes, according to ESRI

Latest nursing home forced to close due to ‘underfunding’ from Fair Deal scheme

Social activity an essential part of life in care facilities, new HSE guidelines emphasise

Government seem unlikely to adopt such an approach; human rights and care organisations have written to the IHREC asking it to intervene

Applying for Fair Deal is a sensible move, but there is no liability on either a home or the HSE to refund any monies billed before a person is approved

Decision to remove stipulation to pay portion of rent towards cost of care criticised

The Alliance network of smaller homes argues that large multi-nursing home operators do not face same risks as smaller ones

Q&A: Fair Deal makes sense for most people and recent changes to rules should reinforce that

St Mary’s nursing home had seen one of worst Covid-19 outbreaks in first wave