The inspector also pointed out that people in the Central Mental Hospital were frequently put into seclusion by nursing staff and the form signed retrospectively by junior doctors. This he said was a bad idea. Old hospitals are emptying and the inspectorate points out that it might be a good idea, since some of the patients left in them are really only institutionalised elderly patients whose mental illness is no more, if parts of these institutions could be adapted to dealing with the elderly. He points in particular to St. Finan's in Killarney where 60% of the 200 patients are over 60.