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

A local TD is spearheading a campaign to keep a city community nursing home open at its current location.

If you or your loved one is currently on discharge from hospital and if you are in need of respite care the HSE will pay the cost for one or two weeks respite in only five nursing homes in Galway.

Visiting restrictions have been put in place at Aras Mhic Dara Community Nursing Unit in Carraroe due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

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Age Action, the older people’s charity, is seeking the public’s assistance to gauge the impact of the Fair Deal nursing home payment scheme since its introduction.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn has welcomed the sanctioning of additional financial support of €12 million for older people in private nursing homes.

Fine Gael candidate for Kilkenny Borough Council, Darren Murphy has called for charges for inspection on nursing homes to be abolished.

An investigation into the standard of care at a public nursing home in Mullingar has found that the most basic needs of an elderly patient were not catered for, including being adequately fed and hydrated.

Some 95 per cent of people on waiting lists for public nursing home beds are already accommodated in private nursing homes.