Madam, - I am appalled at Dr John Barton's assumption that profit-making nursing homes give a lesser degree of care (November 22nd).
My husband has been in a contract bed in a private nursing home for over five years. No money has ever been spared to give him everything that is required for his comfort, including a ripple bed, a specially designed chair, even patient-designed pillows, as and when he needed them.
Does Dr Barton have a relative in a nursing home? If so, I sincerely hope he or she is being treated with the care and love that my husband receives. - Yours, etc,
(Mrs) FREDDIE MULDOON,
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St Fintan's Villas,
Deansgrange,
Co Dublin.