Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Andy Heffernan:
This is something we noticed on reopening our day centres, which had to close during Covid. Even though we reopened them, we were not hitting the numbers in terms of capacity straight away. There had to be a lot of encouragement of people to reconnect there. In fairness to the Government and the HSE, they have run a number of campaigns so that people will come back into communities again. That has been successful to a certain extent. We are approximately two years post-Covid and I am not aware of that still being an issue. Yet, to a certain extent, we have seen more demand for our day care at home services, as opposed to our day care on occasion service. This may be because people are more comfortable with the one-on-one service in their own home, as opposed to going to the collective services in the centre. That is, therefore, a possibility.
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