Programmes will blend the flexibility of online modules with short, intense, face-to-face learning experiences. Students will learn alongside world leaders in the field, will participate in, contribute to and enjoy world-class intellectual disability practice and research, and will be prepared as leaders in quality, leadership and person-centred care for people with an intellectual disability as they age. Click here for more information.

Professor Mary McCarron, Minister Finian McGrath, National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers, Down Syndrome Ireland and Inclusion Ireland weigh in on COVID19. 23,000 attend day services and 13% of the population have some form of disability.

All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care is collaborating with the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability and The Daughters of Charity Disability Support Service, St Francis Hospice Raheny, and Tallaght University Hospital to deliver a Project ECHO AIIHPC webinar for Intellectual Disability Services on How to support people with intellectual disabilities with a diagnosis of COVID-19. Click here to register and more information

People of all ages with an intellectual disability are particularly vulnerable to adverse outcomes associated with COVID-19 warns Mary McCarron, Professor of Ageing and Intellectual Disability at the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability- TCAID