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  • Nursing home keeps spirits up with own pub

    11/14/2005 5:51:42 PM PST · by wagglebee · 31 replies · 663+ views
    Reuters ^ | 11/14/05 | Reuters
    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...