Tag Archives: Elderly

A leading geriatrician is encouraging the ICGP to develop a new programme on elder abuse following the release of new survey findings.

A €48 million facility to explore novel approaches to the healthcare of older people was launched this week, May 17.

A €48 million facility for research into the healthcare of older people was opened this week.

The Government’s Fair Deal scheme is contributing to delayed discharges, which are clogging up hospitals, Cork University Hospital geriatrician Prof Cillian Twomey claimed at the IMO AGM last week.

Professor Desmond O’Neill, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine in Tallaght Hospital, has been honoured for championing active and positive ageing in Ireland.

The number of people aged 75+ in Ireland is projected to reach almost one million by 2041, three times the number living now, a new report by the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) shows.

A new survey shows that almost 60 per cent of people over the age of 65 believe those in their age group would be reluctant to discuss depression.

Watch this interesting video about Kristen Murphy, a 38-year-old medical student in the US (studying to become a geriatrician) – who lived as a resident in a nursing home in order to better understand needs of the elderly.

The Department of Health is seeking submissions on the strategic direction for all future policies, programmes and services for older people in Ireland.

The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has launched The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) Health Assessment Centre at Trinity College Dublin and the public phase of the TILDA study that involves interviewing 8,000 older people over the next 10 years.