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Convalescent Homes

  • 15-11-2014 12:14am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46


    I'm looking for ANY general information on Convalescent Homes in Ireland.
    How would someone get admitted?
    What types of illness were treated?
    How long would someone stay there?
    Was there a daily routine for patients?
    How many patients in a room? or a ward?
    Were they separated by sex? age? illness?

    I am looking for any SPECIFIC information about Linden Convalescent Home, Black Rock, Dublin
    if possible during the 1950s

    Thank you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 P. Breathnach
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    An elderly relative of mine was in Linden from about 1958 to 1960. So far as his family was concerned, even though it was described as a convalescent home, it functioned as a nursing home. He didn't have a particular illness; he was too old to manage independent living (partly because, like many men of that time, he did not have the domestic skills to look after himself after his wife died).

    I know nothing about the regime, even though I visited him (as a child, in the company of adult family members). The visit involved bringing him to a nearby pub for a couple of glasses of Guinness. So you can infer that the regime was not unduly restricitve.

    It did also function as a convalescent home. On one visit we also spent time with a friend of my father's who was there recuperating from an operation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 683 KildareFan
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    President Eamonn De Valera died in the Linden convalescent home in 1975. Talbot lodge where he lived was illegally demolished in the 1990s and replaced with a housing estate http://southcountydublin.forumforus.com/Blackrock.

    There's a bit of a ghost story about Linden at http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=82317307

    Pictures of Linden Hall at
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/88051129@N00/3473156249/
    http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000557778
    http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000557779


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 470 CeannRua
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    The home seems to have been run by the Sisters of Charity. Your best bet is probably to ask them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 heidiresk


    Thank you for your posts. All information is greatly appreciated.


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