Best Current Affairs Programme
Prime Time Investigates: Home Truths highlights substandard care in Irish nursing homes by untrained and unsupervised staff towards elderly people in their charge and explores the deaths of three people who died in hospitals following short stays in the nursing home system. Their grieving families talk to the programme about the treatment received by these elderly relatives and of how their complaints have been received.
The programme paints a picture of untrained staff, inadequate Health Board inspections, dangerous practices and residents spending their twilight years in conditions of distress and neglect.