The Department of Social Care is to reopen a unit for elderly people in the Southlands Resource Centre.
The Surby Unit is a 12-bed facility with en-suite bathrooms, lounge and dining room, which was formerly used as an elderly mentally infirm unit.
It was used to accommodate residents from Douglas while the new purpose-built facility Thie Meanagh was constructed in the capital and has been empty since this opened in July 2009.
Social Care Minister Martyn Quayle says many people wanted to see the unit opened again so that older people in the south who required residential care could remain in their local community.
It's intended to reopen the Surby Unit in April 2012.
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