SPARC News And Events Archive - 2006
Researchers from the Ageing Centre to undertake study on Meals on Wheels in Ireland
The meals-on-wheels service is central to the promotion of community and domiciliary care for older persons, and has considerable potential to impact positively on the service recipients' health, social interaction and general well-being. This study will yield, for the first time in the Irish context, comprehensive information and analysis of the MOW service.
TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing) was launched on Monday 6 November 2006 by Minister for Health and Children, Ms. Mary Harney TD.
Pictured from left to right: Dr Virpi Timonen (TCD), Donal Casey (Irish Life), Prof Rose Anne Kenny (Lead-PI of TILDA, TCD), Prof Brendan Whelan (ESRI/TCD), Minister Harney,
Prof Charles Normand (TCD), Prof Ivan Perry (UCC), Prof Hannah McGee (RCSI), Dr. John Hegarty (Provost of TCD)
Researchers from the Ageing Centre to participate in New European Research Network entitled ‘Migrant Labour in the Eldercare Sectors’ (MILES)
Dr. Virpi Timonen and Martha Doyle of the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre are the Irish participants in the NORFACE Network Series 2006-2008 entitled ‘Migrant Labour in the Eldercare Sectors’ (MILES). NORFACE is a partnership between researchers from Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Book launch by the Research Centre in September 2006
The Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre in Trinity has recently finalised its first full-length book. This is entitled ‘No Place Like Home: Study of Domiciliary Care Services for Older People’, and will be published by Liffey Press (www.theliffeypress.com/) in September...
Guest Lecture
Date: 22 June 2006 at 4pm
Topic: New approaches to researching end of life care.
Speaker: Professor David Clark, Lancaster University (International Observatory on End of Life Care)
Location: Printing House, TCD.
Contact: Please register at ageing.research@tcd.ie
Guest Lecture
Date: 29 May 2006, 4 - 6 pm
Topic: Ageing and health promotion: Opportunities for community and clinical interventions
Speaker: Professor Marcia Ory, Texas A&M University
Location: Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre, Third Floor, 3 College Green (entrance via glass door next to Starbuck’s café on Dame Street, tel no: 01 608 2914)
Description: This is an informal and interactive research colloquium aimed at people who are actively researching or involved in the management and organization of community and clinical health services for older persons.
Contact: Places are limited to 30 in order to facilitate questions and discussion and it is therefore necessary that you book a place by sending an e-mail to ageing.research@tcd.ie
Guest Lecture
Date: 11 May 2006 at 4pm
Topic: 'Reconceptualising Gender and Ageing: have we forgotten older men?'
Speaker: Professor Sara Arber, University of Surrey
Location: Printing House, TCD (A reception will follow in the GMB - all welcome. Light refreshments will be served)
Description: This lecture is organized by the TCD Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies in association with the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre.
Contact: For queries please contact wscentre@tcd.ie or call (01) 6082225
Guest Lecture
Date: 10 April 2006
Topic: 'Assets and ageing: the challenge for ageing research and policy'
Speaker: Professor Linda Rosenman, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia