Dr. Susan Coote:

The Ombudsman's Wasted Lives report highlights the number of people under 65 who are unnecessarily placed in nursing homes because of this. That is a campaign that MS Ireland is leading because there are a number of people with multiple sclerosis in this scenario. There is an implementation stakeholder reference group that is looking specifically at this issue but this is another nice example of how a community neurorehabilitation team or how more regional rehabilitation centres, which are part of the rehabilitation model of care, would alleviate this. That would mean that people have rehabilitation to enable them to go home rather than being unnecessarily and inappropriately placed in a nursing home without access to the specialist services and specialist multidisciplinary teams they need.