The revelations in the  RTÉ Investigates programme about the standard of care in some private nursing homes were deeply disturbing.

Readers may be aware of some of the cases of neglect cited in those investigations, of vulnerable elderly people being abandoned or ignored, left at risk of dangerous falls, or in some cases left in unchanged incontinence pads.

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