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Almost 20 Mayo childcare facilities have already registered to participate in this year’s NCNA National Pyjama Day in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Hospice Homecare for Children programme.

Age Action is calling for urgent regulation to govern the home help service including mandatory vetting of staff, following this week’s RTE Prime Time exposure of physical and psychological abuse of older people by home help workers.

The HSE South which includes Kilkenny, has established a helpline for those concerned about home help following this week’s Prime Time programme on home care services aired this week.

A Co Galway nursing home was recently chosen as the outright winner of a national care award at the Nursing Homes Ireland annual awards ceremony.

The business of caring is expected to grow by leaps and bounds over the next decade and beyond.

A novel new competition to highlight the good work done in Irish nursing homes has just been launched.

The Village Nursing Care Centre in Craughwell has recently launched a home care service with a difference.

Formally launched in February this year by Minister for Health Mary Harney, Oak Tree Home Care Ltd, a home-care team established by Carlow woman Michelle and her husband Eugene, has been operating in Carlow since September 2004 and has been growing since its inception.

Socáir, a new service recently launched in Galway, will enable older people to live in their own homes by providing 24 hour, long-term, live in, practical, and cost effective non-medical care.

A local Labour Councillor has denounced the latest cuts to home care services, which he says by their insular nature, target the elderly, the frail, and the ill in Kilkenny.