Liam Twomey (Fine Gael)

I had a question about care assessment as opposed to means assessment. If a patient is considered to be suitable for a home, he or she may not be given an option. It is not always the case that a person in a nursing home has had a stroke or suffers from a disability or dementia. Sometimes people cannot cope with living alone at home. Will such people be excluded from the scheme if a care assessment concludes there is no physical necessity for such people to be in a nursing home?