{"id":386027,"date":"2026-04-07T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:31:08","slug":"the-hse-take-for-granted-that-family-members-will-care-for-disabled-adults-when-were-gone-ageing-carers-decry-lack-of-supports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386027\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The HSE take for granted that family members will care for disabled adults when we\u2019re gone\u2019 \u2013 ageing carers decry lack of supports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">As state residential care lacks, parents fear they will die before a long-term plan is put in place for their adult children with disabilities\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Frances Ryan, who worries for the future, with her sons Ben, Corey and Bobby from Glenbrien, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. Photo: Patrick Browne\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/49019057-71f8-4795-8e9f-a9cec9e3d99b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Frances Ryan, who worries for the future, with her sons Ben, Corey and Bobby from Glenbrien, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford. Photo: Patrick Browne<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Catriona O\u2019Mahony has spent years \u00adtrying not to picture the moment she dreads most, her son Cian ending up in a nursing home or emergency placement when she becomes too old or too unwell to care for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now 62, she is the full\u2011time carer for her son Cian, who is 24 and has moderate to severe global developmental disorder, autism and a personality disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As state residential care lacks, parents fear they will die before a long-term plan is put in place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,2120,61,60,1419],"class_list":["post-386027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-social-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}