Services

Service

  • Adult Day Care 
  • Meals on Wheels
  • Laundry 
  • Transport 

Adult Day Care and Medical Services

  • Nursing - personal hygiene, blood pressure checks and wound dressings
  • Physiotherapy by referral
  • Chiropody
  • Mental health awareness
  • G.P. visits (by appointment only)

Other Services
  • Hairdressing
  • Adult education classes
  • Health & Safety promotion

What is an Adult Day Care?

Adult day care is a planned programme of activities designed to promote well-being through social and health related services. Adult day care centres operate during daytime hours, Monday through Friday in a safe, supportive, cheerful environment.

For the participant adult day care benefits can be extensive:

  • A safe, environment in which they spend the day
  • Improvement in mental and physical health
  • Enhanced or maintained level of independence
  • Socialisation and peer support
  • Nutritious meals and snacks

Day-care provides older adults an opportunity to get out of the house and receive both mental and social stimulation. It gives care givers a much need break in which to attend to personal needs, or simply rest and relax. Day-care also provides an opportunity to access medical professionals.

Transport 

Castleisland Day Care Centre aims to assist service users who have difficulty with transport needs to and from the Centre by arranging and providing transport.

Our aim is to ensure that the transport service we provide meets the needs and expectations of our service users in a safe, effective and efficient manner.

Castleisland Day Care Centre encourages, where possible, family members and clients themselves to take an active role by providing their own transport to and from the Centre

Prior to using our transport service users are assessed for suitability and needs and thereafter on an on-going basis.

Requests for transport are assessed on seat availability, designated routes and needs of service user.

Castleisland Day Care Centre endeavours to have a trained passenger assistant on our bus route.

We do not have a passenger assistant on our car routes and family should be aware of this.

 

List of bus/car

Insurer and photos


Castleisland Day Care Centre provides a Wheelchair Accessible Bus daily to collect clients from their homes and bring them to the Day Centre. 


Each day the bus operates in a different geographical area covering a different route.

There is a passenger assistant, provided by Castleisland Day Care Centre, on the bus to assist clients. 

Our Bus was part-funded by CLÁR The Department of Rural and Community Development in 2021


Photographed below: 

Driver JJ Broderick and Passenger Assistant Helen Barrett

Meals on Wheels 


Castleisland Day Care Centre provides a meal’s on wheels service to Castleisland town and to surrounding areas which our Day Care services. These areas include Cordal, Scartaglen, Farranfore, Firies and Ballymac.

Brosna and Knocknagoshel area are serviced for meals on wheels by Knocknagoshel Meals on Wheels service.

We have two vans delivering food and you would need to check with us to find out which day we can deliver in your area.

Meals are delivered at a cost of €7 per meal, main course only.

Castleisland Day Care wishes to provide safe nutritious meals and in order to successfully achieve this, all food is handled correctly from delivery of raw goods by suppliers, to the preparation and cooking of the food and to delivery to your door. This ensures that food is safe and minimizes the risk of harmful bacteria developing. 


It is important that after meals are delivered to you that you continue to handle the food correctly.

Information on food safety for our Meals on Wheels service

 

Laundry


Castleisland Day Care Centre operates a community laundry service from the centre

This service is available to all Day Care Centre clients and anyone in the community who is eligible and in need of the service.

If possible, Laundry should be dropped and collected

If you have difficulty dropping it please contact us and we will try to arrange for our driver to collect it.

The laundry service operates Monday to Friday.

Charges for laundry is €5 per 8kg wash

If your bag contains two loads charge will be €10

We will keep a record of loads and we can invoice you at the end of each month or alternatively you can pay when you drop/collect the laundry