‘Too young to be here’: Parkinson’s patient, 47, trapped in Cork nursing home due to lack of State support

by PoppedCork

8 comments

  2. Sadly, it’s not a new problem. I was visiting an old friend who had a stroke who was residing in an old folks home. A woman in her forties who was severely incapacitated from MS was also a resident. A bright woman surrounded by elderly folk in their dotage. There was nowhere else for her.

  3. Sadly, it’s not a new problem. I was visiting an old friend who had a stroke who was residing in an old folks home. A woman in her forties who was severely incapacitated from MS was also a resident. A bright woman surrounded by elderly folk in their dotage. There was nowhere else for her.

  4. That sounds like utter hell. My heart goes out to him. What an awful turn of life. Well it’s not life. Nursing homes are not about living. It’s about being quietly put somewhere to wait for death to come get you.

  5. This used to happen a lot with people with Acquired Brain Injuries before The Peter Bradley Foundation/ABI Ireland. You’d get young lads who had been in a car accident in with people 50 or 60 years older than them.

    Very sad to see and speaks to the need for better specialist social care services in Ireland.

  6. Friend of my Dad’s, he son was knocked down a few years ago. Guy was in his 30s at the time, and left disabled and brain damaged, although still able to  communicate. In a nursing home for the elderly since. 

  8. >“We need a system where people who require regular home help get it. It’s much better to have people cared for in their own environment, in their own home, particularly young people.”

    Absolutely. The current home help system is shocking. The HSE has put so many restrictions on home help that the carer can’t even pick up medication for a patient anymore.

    It’s disgraceful. I’ve highlighted this issue with my local councillor and he’s raising it with his constituency colleagues. I urge anyone else in the same boat to do the same.

    It’s important that the most vulnerable in our society are protected.

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