Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Coping with Challenges of Huntington's Disease: Discussion

9:30 am

Dr. Jennifer Hoblyn:

Bloomfield has opened a small long-stay unit which has ten patients. I have a long list of other patients that I am assessing. I have also started a 16-week multidisciplinary assessment programme where we take people from around the country to work together with the families to see what are the best supports we can provide locally. However, there is no infrastructure there for the community occupational therapists, SALT, speech and language therapy, neurology and so forth to work closely together.

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