Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> "jmcquown" > looking for trouble wrote in
> :
>
>> Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
>>> I don't think this concept is new but it's the first time I've seen
>>> a pub in a nursing home. I've seen pubs in assisted living high
>>> rises and in apartment buildings but never a nursing home.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> Mon Nov 14, 1:16 PM ET
>>>
>>> DUBLIN (Reuters) - 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.
>>
>> How much for a pint? <G>
>>
>> Jill
>
> On the house for you if you'll let me ride in your wheelchair

Dangit, I'm going to have to find a wheelchair! You're not getting near my
cane!