{"id":558,"date":"2018-07-03T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/vulnerable-older-people-denied-home-help-due-to-inadequate-funding\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:39:42","slug":"vulnerable-older-people-denied-home-help-due-to-inadequate-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/vulnerable-older-people-denied-home-help-due-to-inadequate-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable older people denied Home-Help due to inadequate funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Vulnerable older people denied Home-Help due to inadequate funding\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"et-pullquote\"><p>The average weekly cost for home-support services is \u20ac160. This is a fraction of the weekly cost of the average nursing home which is over \u20ac1,000 per week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD has today demanded that the Minister for Health urgently deal with the ongoing crisis in older person\u2019s services as the annual funding allocation for home-help hours has already run out and over 6,000 older people are on waiting lists for home-support services nationally. \u201cIt is absolutely shocking that just over half-way through the year that funding for such a basic service could effectively run out when so many people are waiting for services. Many older people need only a minimum amount of day-to-day support that will allow them to live independently. &#8220;In failing to properly fund these services the government is essentially telling older people that they simply do not care about their needs. A case has been recently brought to my attention where an 80 year old person suffering with Alzheimer\u2019s was approved for home help, but told there was no funding available. \u201cHome help support is vital in enabling older people to live independently in their own communities, rather than having to go into a nursing home. Enabling older people to remain at home serves older people best and is also a much more cost effective way for providing services. The government need to make good on their commitment to introduce a statutory entitlement to home-care as soon as possible, but in the meantime they should ensure the existing services are adequately funded.\u201d Figures obtained by Deputy Shortall from the HSE underscore the cost effectiveness of providing care at home for older people. \u201cThe average weekly cost for home-support services is \u20ac160. This is a fraction of the weekly cost of the average nursing home which is over \u20ac1,000 per week. Additionally, many older people remain in hospital longer than they need as no home supports are available. An acute hospital bed can cost the HSE approximately \u20ac6,000 per week and adds to waiting lists as people cannot return home. It is a complete failure of planning and a waste of resources.\u201d \u201cYet again, this is an example of the health services operating a model of care which is unnecessarily expensive while community services are starved of essential funding.\u201d ENDS <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_60724119\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3 July <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vulnerable older people denied Home-Help due to inadequate funding\u00a0 The average weekly cost for home-support services is \u20ac160. This is a fraction of the weekly cost of the average nursing home which is over \u20ac1,000 per week. Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD has today demanded that the Minister for Health urgently deal with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,264],"tags":[378],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall","tag-home-help"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vulnerable older people denied Home-Help due to inadequate funding - Social Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/vulnerable-older-people-denied-home-help-due-to-inadequate-funding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ga_IE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vulnerable older people denied Home-Help due to inadequate funding - Social Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vulnerable older people denied Home-Help due to inadequate funding\u00a0 The average weekly cost for home-support services is \u20ac160. 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