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    You are at:Home»News»Age Action welcomes funding to help older patients ‘trapped in hospitals’

    Age Action welcomes funding to help older patients ‘trapped in hospitals’

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    By SLpeter on May 28, 2015 News

    Age Action has welcomed the Government’s decision to allocate an additional €74 million to address the issue of delayed discharges and overcrowding in hospital Emergency Departments. It will reduce the stress created for many older people who are currently trapped in delayed discharge beds.

    However, the older people’s charity has expressed concern that, while the measures announced today focused on providing additional nursing home beds and transitional care beds, no additional funding was announced today for supports to enable older people to be discharged home.

    “HSE figures compiled in February showed that 17% of people in delayed discharge beds at the time were due to be discharged home, but were awaiting approval of a range of supports such as home care packages  and home adaptations,” Age Action spokesperson Eamon Timmins said. “We are concerned that this important area is not addressed by today’s funding announcement.”

    The extra  €44 million for the Nursing Home Support Scheme will fund an additional 1,600 nursing home beds and reduce the waiting time to four weeks, compared to the current 11 weeks. A further €30 million will provide additional transitional care beds.

    Age Action has also welcomed some of the recommendations of the Emergency Department Task Force Plan, recently published .  “We need to move away from fire-fighting measures,  and recognise that some of the problems we are experiencing in hospitals at the moment are the symptoms of a health service which is not adequately meeting the needs of its ageing population,” Mr Timmins said.  “If we are to manage our Emergency Departments in the coming years, we have to ensure that we meet the needs of older people at an earlier stage, before they become so frail and ill that they are admitted to their accident and emergency unit.”

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