This book is both important and timely. It is important, as it is the first book to look at legal issues affecting older people in Ireland; and it is timely, as it directly addresses the two recent and still ongoing nursing home controversies. A wide range of experts comprehensively cover a broad range of topics; consequently, not only is it an essential guide to the legal issues affecting the elderly, providing definitive analysis of important issues such as the law relating to care, capacity, and wardship, but it also considers other important social, economic, political and health policy issues affecting older people in Ireland.
