Nursing home keeps spirits up with own pub
Mon Nov 14
DUBLIN (Reuters) - A nursing home in Ireland has hit on a cheering way to keep up the spirits of its elderly patients -- by providing its own pub.
St Mary's Hospital in County Monaghan, near the Irish border with Northern Ireland, believes ready access to a good pint may help its patients -- average age 85 -- actually live longer.
"We would say the whole social aspect of life does extend the years -- it means the patients aren't bored to death," Rose Mooney, assistant director of nursing told Reuters.
The pub, which opens at 11 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. and charges normal bar prices, had also led to an increase in the number of visitors, she said.
Having its own bar made the hospital, which has around 140 patients, unique in Ireland, she added.
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Some one from Ireland HAD to have visited down town San Antonio! The Nix Memorial hospital which was built around 1929 is on the Riverwalk AND in the basement/lowerlevel of the hospital IS the bar " 's Last Resort"......NO LIE!!!! Btw I think that half of the native San Antonians were born there.
Would you like an Ice Cold Beer with your Enema?...
i want to retire already
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