Dynamo Irishwoman vows to fight for dementia care packages

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Dynamo Irish broadcaster Teena Gates vows to fight for dementia care packages

Dynamo Teena Gates has been a journalist since she was 17, ran a newsroom in Dublin, wrote a best-selling book, battled obesity and climbed Everest.Ireland’s much-loved newscaster has worked in RTE, Today FM, Newstalk and 98FM and now she’s campaigning to help hundreds of desperate families.

“Then all the fighting began. We had him in hospital, then discharged even though he had a broken eye socket and a bleed on the brain and a traumatised hand.“He was there for two months in Woodlands, James Connolly, and they were fantastic, but I was advised not to take him home without an HSE care package.

“I wrote a post on Facebook on my fervent desire to get my dad back home and it turned into an open letter to the minister. “I’ve covered every inch of concrete in the garden with foam, it’s very much like having a baby-stroke-teenager, stroke-toddler. “My dad was costing the State thousands while he was in hospital, but our Care Package is roughly in the region of €500 a week.

 

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