Community Support for Older People

The purpose of the Scheme is to encourage and assist the community's support for older people by means of a community-based grant scheme to improve the security of its older members. The Scheme is administered by Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta for the Iorras Aithneach, Camus and Ros Muc community with the support of the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

The Scheme provides grants to community and voluntary groups to encourage and assist them in improving the security of vulnerable older people in their own homes. Its aim is to improve the security and social support of vulnerable older people in their homes by providing grants for:

• The once–off  cost of installing socially monitored alarm systems.

• Smoke/carbon monoxide alarms.

Note:
Please note that funding is not available for conventional intruder alarms under this scheme.

Scheme Details and Application Forms are available by contacting our local office in Ros Muc at 091-574353.