{"id":59037,"date":"2025-09-12T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59037\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:39:10","slug":"as-over-4800-wait-for-home-care-in-ireland-which-regions-have-the-largest-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/59037\/","title":{"rendered":"As over 4,800 wait for home care in Ireland, which regions have the largest queues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Many elderly people in the west and north-west are affected by longer wait times. Stock image: Alamy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4c4ca5c3-7927-4e6a-bb6a-d966ee6e0798.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Many elderly people in the west and north-west are affected by longer wait times. Stock image: Alamy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Waiting lists for home care for older people and people with a disability are highest in the west and north-west counties \u2013 with 1,334 in a queue for the service in this region as figures show an ongoing postcode lottery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Around 4,833 are waiting for home care across the country, some needing the support for the first time and others hoping to get additional hours to continue to live independently at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many elderly people in the west and north-west are affected by longer wait times. Stock image: Alamy Waiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[2271,18,135,475,474,60,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-59037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-hse","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}