An elderly woman with dementia whose adult children disagreed over her future care is to be moved from a community nursing unit to the home of a daughter, a High Court judge has directed. Aged in her 70s, the woman is a ward of court who has been in a community nursing unit for some months. In evidence, a doctor involved in the woman’s care said the nursing unit is not intended for long term nursing care and may have difficulties with the Health Inspection Quality Authority if it keeps her much longer. In reply to the judge, he stressed that potential case is not in the nursing unit but arose from an individual having attended the A&E department of a Dublin hospital. Because of the downward trajectory of her dementia, nursing home care will have to be considered in the future, he added.

Source: The Irish Times January 30, 2020 17:48 UTC