Beyond the home

A majority of older people live at home and the focus of MAKE HOME WORK is on realising the right to age well at home.  However, there are circumstances where individuals need access to high quality care in other settings e.g. hospice, dementia specific and residential care. 

Whatever the setting, people want to live in a place that ‘feels like home’ and our system of health and community care is not complete until those needs are met. 

• Specifically we call on the Government to honour its commitment in the Programme for Government to review the Fair Deal system of financing nursing home care and to plan for an effective system of community and residential care for older people.