A GOVERNMENT-run residential home is to close down.
Social Care chiefs have confirmed that no new admissions will be taken at Glenside Resource Centre in Douglas and they expect it to close completely by 2014.
It is part of a shake-up of adult social care services which will see more elderly people receiving care in their own homes.
Social Care Minister Chris Robertshaw MHK said: ‘At the moment funding is skewed towards residential services.
‘To some degree it is flying in the face of the aspirations and wishes of older people, which is effectively to stay at home for as long as possible.
‘What we are proposing is to continue to improve and reinvest in our residential services where we need to retain them but to significantly enhance services for those who wish to stay in their own home.’
Admissions have stopped temporarily at Reayrt ny Baie Resource Centre, also in Douglas, to create capacity in the system needed to deliver the change.
He said the department had already made ‘significant progress’ in developing community services that will enable people to remain in their own home.
In 2008 then Health and Social Security Minister Eddie Teare MHK announced long-term admissions would stop with immediate effect at three residential homes, Glenside and Reayrt ny Baie Resource Centre in Douglas and Cummal Mooar Resource Centre in Ramsey.
The department announced a u-turn on admissions the following month after it came in for severe criticism for a lack of consultation and warning.
There are 64 bed-spaces at Glenside and currently there are 59 residents, who will be offered alternative accommodation.
There are 64 members of staff. Mr Robertshaw said the department would work with them to find employment elsewhere in the department where possible.