bar in nursing home

gunssb · 11-14-2005, 06:40 PM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10035233/

How to cheer up a nursing home? Install a bar
‘Patients aren’t bored to death,’ official says at St. Mary's in Ireland

Updated: 1:37 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2005
DUBLIN, Ireland - 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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:drink: :cheer: :nod:

Apollyon67 · 11-14-2005, 09:01 PM

Leave it to the Irish.

Dallas · 11-14-2005, 10:16 PM

It makes sense to me but this being puritanical America, I doubt it could happen here.

Oxford · 11-15-2005, 11:20 AM

Having recently returned from Ireland I can vouch firsthand that the Irish love the taste of their Guiness beer. And...most times a drink consisted of at least a pint in a frosty cold mug. No doubt that many persons in nursing homes there would miss something that's been a part of their heritage for most of their lives. So being served beer in a nursing home in Ireland would make perfectly good sense to me if they were able to inbibe a little brew occasionally.

The last stop on my tour there was through the seven story Guiness "warehouse" where visitors were shown all about their beer making and the history of Guiness Beer before we ended up on the top floor sipping a pint of their dark and very bitter product as we looked through the panoramic view of Dublin. :cheer: :right:

11-14-2005, 06:40 PM	#1
gunssb Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: socal Posts: 1,833	bar in nursing home http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10035233/ How to cheer up a nursing home? Install a bar ‘Patients aren’t bored to death,’ official says at St. Mary's in Ireland Updated: 1:37 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2005 DUBLIN, Ireland - 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. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. :drink: :cheer: :nod:

11-14-2005, 09:01 PM	#2
Apollyon67 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 2,235 Images: 17	Leave it to the Irish. __________________ "To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish." Ben Franklin

11-15-2005, 11:20 AM	#4
Oxford Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gladstone, Missouri Posts: 13,023 Blog Entries: 4	Having recently returned from Ireland I can vouch firsthand that the Irish love the taste of their Guiness beer. And...most times a drink consisted of at least a pint in a frosty cold mug. No doubt that many persons in nursing homes there would miss something that's been a part of their heritage for most of their lives. So being served beer in a nursing home in Ireland would make perfectly good sense to me if they were able to inbibe a little brew occasionally. The last stop on my tour there was through the seven story Guiness "warehouse" where visitors were shown all about their beer making and the history of Guiness Beer before we ended up on the top floor sipping a pint of their dark and very bitter product as we looked through the panoramic view of Dublin. :cheer: :right: __________________ "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right".

11-14-2005, 10:16 PM	#3
Dallas PUKHA DAWG Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C. Posts: 3,595	It makes sense to me but this being puritanical America, I doubt it could happen here.