Woman in her 50s unable to care for herself must remain in nursing home HSE’s inability to find alternative ‘very difficult news’, court told
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The HSE has told the High Court it has been unable to secure an appropriate care placement, other than a nursing home, for a woman in her fifties who is severely physically disabled as a result of a progressive disorder.
The woman has been in a nursing home for some five years following a crisis hospital admission said to have arisen from her inability to safely care for herself at home where she lived alone in conditions described as “very poor”.
Court rules that life support can be withdrawn from woman Aged in her 20s, the woman has been in a persistent vegetative state since 2011
Mon, May 10, 2021, 12:02 Updated: Mon, May 10, 2021, 12:08
The president of the High Court has made orders permitting artificial life support to be withdrawn from a young woman in a persistent vegetative state for almost ten years, and for palliative care to be administered, so she can die a natural death.
The woman’s mother, supported by her extended family, had sought the orders.
They were in court on Monday and wiped away tears as Ms Justice Mary Irvine read her judgment.
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Woman (18) with chronic anorexia can be restrained to be tube fed, High Court directs High Court president says young woman has no insight into the danger of her situation
Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 15:50
A young woman with chronic anorexia who is “very close to death” may be restrained to be tube fed in order to save her life, the High Court has directed.
The 18-year-old woman had initially consented to naso-gastric tube feeding on her admission to hospital last February but has sabotaged it several times, has lost weight and is ”very close to death”, Patricia Hill BL, for the HSE, said on Friday.
The panels hearing such applications do not sit in public and take place in private via video conference, with the judges working from their homes or chambers.
In March, Mr Justice Woulfe also began sitting as a member of a three-judge Court of Appeal to hear a number of appeals in that court.
In the wake of his appointment, Mr Justice Woulfe became embroiled in the so-called Golfgate controversy.
That led to a review by former chief justice Susan Denham who, in her report of October 1st, 2020, expressed the view it would have been better had the judge not attended the golf dinner but it would be âunjust and disproportionateâ to seek his resignation.