Home help cuts at crisis point
Cuts to home help hours are leaving elderly people with few options but to make the heartbreaking decision to leave their homes and enter full time care.
Those living in rural areas are especially vulnerable as isolation and fewer family supports mean that, for many, home help is the dividing line between independence and dependence. Leitrim already has the highest proportion of people over 65 in the country. When you add to this the fact that a growing number of young people are opting to move to the larger urban areas or emigrate in search of work, more and more of our older residents are going to be faced with care issues in the future.
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Tuesday 22 May 2012
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