The number of elderly people aged 60 years of age and older is expected to double from 841 million people in 2013 to more than 2 billion people in 2050. We are growing older and living longer lives. In fact, older people are forecast to exceed the number of children in the world for the first time in 2047. Sometimes there is a perception that […]
Briefing notes issued to Health Minister Leo Varadkar show a number of significant challenges for the Nursing Home Support Scheme and long-term residential care in the future. Niamh Cahill reports in the Irish Medical News. Several commentators have voiced concerns about the future of long-term residential care in Ireland in the last year. The Department of Health was, heretofore, never among this cacophony. But briefing notes issued to […]
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