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A number of high profile personalities participated in Quality Living, Quality Care
the celebrations. They included singers Dickie Rock
and Eleanor Shanley, sports personalities Ruby Walsh, Living in a Nursing Home
Tracy Piggott, and Conor O’Dwyer, and RTE’s Paddy
O’Gorman. What exactly does nursing home care entail?
The Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Newstalk, and What sort of healthcare is provided and what is
Today FM were amongst the media organisations to nursing home life like?
highlight Nursing Homes Week 2014 celebrations. The
Mail on Sunday, Sunday Business Post and Journal.ie NHI’s Quality Living, Quality Care – Living in
reported upon issues affecting care provision that were a Nursing Home booklet provides the necessary
highlighted during the week. Regional news outlets and important advice for anyone considering
also featured the celebrations taking place in their local nursing home care. It informs of nursing home
nursing homes. living: the independence of nursing home living,
During the week – Wednesday 18th June, an Oireachtas the designated care plan for each individual
Open Day saw NHI representatives meet over 50 TDs residents, nursing home facilities, activities and
and Senators to brief them in respect of the significant the food served within such settings.
challenges facing provision of nursing home care and
the opportunities arising. As well as informing of nursing home living, the
Tadhg Daly, NHI CEO commented in respect of user-friendly booklet also advises of the rights
Nursing Homes Week 2014: “It was an outstanding of persons living in nursing homes, complaints
celebration of the positivity of nursing home life and procedures, and accessing nursing home care via
nursing home care. Thank you to all who participated the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Fair Deal)
and I encourage Members to embrace Nursing Homes or through paying privately and availing of tax
Week 2015! We are looking forward building upon relief.
the success and momentum of the past two years
of celebration. Nursing Homes Week provides an Residents and staff living within nursing homes
important opportunity to focus on the positivity of write of nursing home care and living. This
nursing home life and celebrate the excellent care valuable booklet has been utilized by nursing
provided by our Members in communities across homes, within the wider health service and
Ireland.” information services, and has seen considerable
demand from the general public.
Copies are available by contacting
NHI at (01) 4292570 or it can be downloaded at
www.nhi.ie via the publications section of the
website
(visit the Guide to Living in a Nursing Home
section).
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the celebrations. They included singers Dickie Rock
and Eleanor Shanley, sports personalities Ruby Walsh, Living in a Nursing Home
Tracy Piggott, and Conor O’Dwyer, and RTE’s Paddy
O’Gorman. What exactly does nursing home care entail?
The Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Newstalk, and What sort of healthcare is provided and what is
Today FM were amongst the media organisations to nursing home life like?
highlight Nursing Homes Week 2014 celebrations. The
Mail on Sunday, Sunday Business Post and Journal.ie NHI’s Quality Living, Quality Care – Living in
reported upon issues affecting care provision that were a Nursing Home booklet provides the necessary
highlighted during the week. Regional news outlets and important advice for anyone considering
also featured the celebrations taking place in their local nursing home care. It informs of nursing home
nursing homes. living: the independence of nursing home living,
During the week – Wednesday 18th June, an Oireachtas the designated care plan for each individual
Open Day saw NHI representatives meet over 50 TDs residents, nursing home facilities, activities and
and Senators to brief them in respect of the significant the food served within such settings.
challenges facing provision of nursing home care and
the opportunities arising. As well as informing of nursing home living, the
Tadhg Daly, NHI CEO commented in respect of user-friendly booklet also advises of the rights
Nursing Homes Week 2014: “It was an outstanding of persons living in nursing homes, complaints
celebration of the positivity of nursing home life and procedures, and accessing nursing home care via
nursing home care. Thank you to all who participated the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Fair Deal)
and I encourage Members to embrace Nursing Homes or through paying privately and availing of tax
Week 2015! We are looking forward building upon relief.
the success and momentum of the past two years
of celebration. Nursing Homes Week provides an Residents and staff living within nursing homes
important opportunity to focus on the positivity of write of nursing home care and living. This
nursing home life and celebrate the excellent care valuable booklet has been utilized by nursing
provided by our Members in communities across homes, within the wider health service and
Ireland.” information services, and has seen considerable
demand from the general public.
Copies are available by contacting
NHI at (01) 4292570 or it can be downloaded at
www.nhi.ie via the publications section of the
website
(visit the Guide to Living in a Nursing Home
section).
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