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Airdrie and Glasgow care homes close due to liquidation

Cashflow problems and falling occupancy push a nursing home and dementia centre to shut

Insider UK

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says elderly won't be left in lurch with nursing homes converted for refugees

The Taoiseach acknowledged that nursing homes are closing for this purpose, but he said that bed numbers in nursing homes could be kept steady

Dublin Live

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says elderly won't be left in lurch with nursing homes converted for refugees

“I always say when it comes to the issue of asylum and migration is that we need to be fair, we also need to be firm"

Irish Mirror

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Six Dublin nursing homes close since 2020 as costs spike

A new report commissioned by Nursing Homes Ireland showed that operational costs are casting the future of some nursing homes into doubt

Dublin Live

Former carers mourn 'heartbreaking' death of man at nursing home

Jimmy's death was an "absolutely unnecessary tragic waste"

Liverpool Echo

Tandara Lodge Nursing Home Auxiliary in Tasmania's north-west closing after 45 years

A volunteer group that's helped make residents of a Tasmanian nursing home feel comfortable and looked after for 45 years is closing because its members are ageing and it can't find new recruits.

ABC News

COVID outbreaks, hospitalisations rise in Hunter New England as cases surge in nursing homes, schools

NSW Health officials are encouraging people to get COVID boosters as cases spread, with nursing homes copping the brunt of a winter surge.

ABC News

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95-year-old woman tasered by Australian police dies

SYDNEY: A 95-year-old great-grandmother died Wednesday a week after being tasered by an Australian police officer inside her nursing home, police said.

Bangkok Post

Clare Nowland, 95-year-old woman tasered at Cooma nursing home, dies in hospital

Clare Nowland fell and fractured her skull after she was tasered by police during an incident at a Cooma nursing home last week.

ABC News

Brickbat: Watch Out, She's Got a Knife

Clare Nowland, 95, is in a New South Wales, Australia, hospital after Tasered by a senior constable. Nowland, who has dementia, is a nursing home resident. The constable had been called to that nursing home because Nowland had a knife. "At the time she was Tasered she was approaching police.…

Reason

Officer who tasered 95yo woman suspended from duty

The NSW senior police constable who tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother in her nursing home has been suspended from duty with pay.

The New Daily

Aged care regulator slams Royal Freemasons Moe in report over 70-year-old resident's death on footpath

The aged care regulator has delivered a scathing report into eastern Victorian nursing home Royal Freemasons Moe after an investigation into the death of a resident in May 2022.

ABC News

Police officers being called to aged care homes is 'standard protocol', industry expert says

The family of 95-year-old taser victim, Clare Nowland, maintain a bedside vigil as questions are raised about why NSW Police police were called to her nursing home.

ABC News

NSW top cop can’t bring herself to watch footage of granny being tasered

As her condition deteriorates, NSW's top cop won't watch video of a 95-year-old grandmother being tasered in a nursing home

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AAP

NSW top cop will not watch tasered grandma bodycam

NSW's police commissioner will not watch video of the tasering of a 95-year-old grandmother in a nursing home, as the elderly woman's condition worsens.

WEKU

Australian police officer investigated after using a Taser on a 95-year-old woman

The nursing home resident was found alone in her room with a steak knife when the officer in question fired his Taser. The woman is now in critical condition at the hospital.

Irish Mirror

Grandmother, 95, who suffers from dementia, in critical condition after police taser her at nursing home

The great-grandmother is now fighting for her life after police tasered her while she was holding a steak knife at her nursing home

Daily Mirror

Body camera footage shows moment police officer tasered 95-year-old gran at nursing home

The police chief declined to say whether he thought a police officer with 12 years experience had used excessive force by firing a stun gun twice at a 5ft 2ins and 6.7st "much loved" elderly woman

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The Independent UK

Australian police Taser 95-year-old with dementia as she approached them with steak knife and walker

A 95-year-old woman was in critical condition Friday, two days after police shocked her with a stun gun as she approached them with a walking frame and a steak knife in an Australian nursing home

Pedestrian.tv

NSW Police Reveal Why They Tasered A 95 Y.O. Woman TBH There’s No Good Reason Here

The woman is in critical condition as is "expected to die".

AAP

Grandmother, 95, fighting for life after being tasered

A 95-year-old woman with dementia was tasered after staff at her aged care home, fearing she was carrying a knife, called NSW Police.

The New Daily

95-year-old great-grandmother fighting for life after being tasered in nursing home police altercation

A 95-year-old great-grandmother is reportedly fighting for her life after being tasered when she was found with a knife in a nursing home.

Daily Record

"Significant strengths" found with care provision at Ayrshire nursing home

The nursing home was praised for its “very professional approach” to healthcare provision.

The Independent UK

Care home claims ‘revolting’ discovery in woman’s wounds was caused by heatwave

Kathleen Hines, 92, was having a cancer-triggered sore checked when staff made the revolting discovery

ABC News

Nurses union fears nursing homes won't pass on 'historic' $11.3 billion budget commitment to boost aged care wages

The nurses union warns the aged care sector has form when it comes to avoiding paying wage rises, and says the government must oblige providers to pass on a historic 15 per cent pay increase to all workers, not just those on award rates.

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