There have been reports of an elderly woman visiting Deansgrange cemetery when she was accosted and robbed by five men. According to DublinLive, the woman had her possessions “forcibly” taken from her on Tuesday afternoon, whereupon the “suspected offenders are believed to have fled the scene in a vehicle following the incident.” Some of her […]
The fear-sowing propaganda has worked fiendishly well.
What does it say about a country when its people are forced to go to the High Court to seek an inquiry into the appalling mismanagement of state support for nursing homes during the Covid crisis? The horrendous consequences for elderly people from the State’s inexplicable and unaccountable inactions are stark and harrowing. More than 2,000 […]
The Oireachtas Justice Committee examining a bill proposing to legalise Assisted Suicide has said the Bill has “serious technical issues” and that it lacked safeguards to protect against undue pressure being put on vulnerable people to avail of assisted dying. They also said that the “serious flaws” and the fact that the “gravity of such […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has read what he described as a “damning document” into the Dáil record in which he says it appears that the Government moved elderly patients “wholesale out of hospital beds and crammed them into nursing homes just as Covid hit the country”. Over 2,000 people died with Covid in Nursing Homes, but commentators […]
The car has left the highway. We are close to our house. Using our mobile phone, we send a message; the porch and entrance lights come on and the heating starts up so that when we arrive the temperature is adequate, which the device itself has learned is the one we prefer. The house is […]
Ma Yinchu was born in 1882 in Zhejiang, China. The son of a small business owner, he was inclined towards scholarship. After earning an undergraduate degree at Tianjin University, he studied at Yale, subsequently earning a PhD in economics and philosophy from Columbia University. He returned to China and helped found the Shanghai College of […]
Barcelona has just rolled out a pilot program where carebots will be deployed to assist in the homes of the elderly living alone. The seniors will be closely monitored in their overall wellbeing before, during, and after the carebots’ stay, and findings will be used to fine-tune the carebots’ programming and use. Around 90,000 elderly […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for an Emergency Response Unit to be set up in support of Nursing Homes in crisis. Today it was revealed that 369 deaths associated with Covid-19 had taken place in nursing homes in January, with 193 outbreaks currently in the care homes. “We’ve seen a warning from the […]
An Garda Síochana has warned older and vulnerable people to watch out for a scam being perpetrated in relation to the Covid-19 vaccine, where criminals seek to get access to a person’s funds and/or their home. Earlier today, a Cork city councillor warned of the scam which had been brought to his attention. Independent councillor Ken […]
Remember in the first weeks of the pandemic last year when Italy was the focus of the outbreak? News out of China was sketchy, so most of what we saw and heard of the new virus was from northern Italy: ambulances racing along narrow and dark streets, locked down towns, rows of coffins in churches […]
A campaign seeking to lift what they say are “callous” restrictions on nursing home visits say that older people are “dying with broken hearts” because of the isolation and loneliness brought about by the Covid lockdown. The campaign group, Care Champions say that they have launched the ‘2*2*2 initiative’ seeking a change to regulations so […]