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In conjunction with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability will have 21 presentations spread over 2 days under the theme of Health Ageing and Intellectual Disability. Click here to access our Healthy Ageing and Intellectual Disability programme, which provides details of each presentation. The full programme and pre-conference workshops can be found here: https://nursing-midwifery.tcd.ie/events-conferences/THEconference2021/

The European Union funded EIT Health Campus scheme have awarded Dr. Esther Murphy, our Trinity Centre for Ageing & Intellectual Disability’s (TCAID) Technology and Innovation Lead approx. €414,000 to lead as Principal Investigator our new Pan European interdisciplinary project; Digi-ID - Digital skills education to support health and social inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities. Digi-ID aims to address the challenge of digital inclusion and low usage of digital technologies amongst people with intellectual disabilities. Read more here

TCAID is proud to announce that TCD PPI Ignite has received a funding award from the Health Research Board and Irish Research Council to continue until 2025. Recognised as leaders in advancing meaningful public and patient involvement, the TCD Ignite Office will join the national network and lead out on efforts to improve the quality of approaches, as well as impact assessment over the next five years.  This funding award recognises Prof. Mary McCarron and Michael Foley for their outstanding contributions to date and their focus on advancing meaningful opportunities for engagement and involvement.  We have a lot to look forward to.

TCAID would like to invite you to join us for our Get Wise About Your Health showcase event on January 27th at 11:00am IST. The Get Wise About Your Health project has co-created and co-developed an innovative platform in conjunction with people with intellectual disability. The course is aimed at individuals with intellectual disability to learn more about keeping healthy. Please join us to learn more about the programme.Click here to register.

To mark International Day of People with Disabilities, Minister Anne Rabbitte, TD, Minister of State with responsibility for Disability launched our IDS-TILDA Wave 4 report exploring the experiences of people with an intellectual disability during COVID-19. The report is based on the findings of the questions we asked IDS-TILDA participants during the early stages of the pandemic. Click here to read more.