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Minister for Older People Launches ‘Living with Dementia’ – A Psychological and Social Research Programme in Dementia Care
The Living with Dementia programme seeks to impact on policy development and contribute to the design of best practice models for those affected by dementia. Dublin, Thursday, April 29th, 2010 – ‘Living with Dementia’ is a psychological and social research programme in dementia care that…
Author: School of Social Work and Social Policy
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Neighborhoods, Social Capital and Schools
Original Source Principal Michael Johnson of Reavis Elementary, shown here with some 6th-graders, is working hard to create cohesion among his staff and build bridges between his school and its neighborhood. According to research discussed at the kickoff of this year’s School Policy Luncheon series,…
Author: LISC/Chicago's New Communities Program
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Seniors' fear of anti-social behaviour highlighted
Original Source The latest research highlighting older peoples’ fear of anti-social behaviour will be presented today (Thursday 29 May) by the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) at the Institute of Governance, Queen’s University Belfast. Carried out by Queen’s PhD student Brendan Sturgeon, the ongoing research examines…
Author: news-medical.net
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Letter from Belfast: In a Time of Strengthening Peace, Communities and Advocates Raise Their Voices for Social Justice
Time was, not too long ago, that sectarian violence ruled Belfast, but in recent years the bombs have largely fallen silent. The more rare outbursts of violence – such as the March killings of two British soldiers ambushed during a pizza delivery – have been…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Telling the Story About South Africa's Rural Poor
The transition from apartheid to the new South Africa is rightfully viewed as one of the major advances in human history toward equality and democracy. But as I have written here before, many problems still exist: the South African government became an object of ridicule,…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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The Age We Live In
Original Source Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. CLAIRE O’CONNELL reports on the rationale behind a new study on ageing in the Republic which has just been launched WHAT IS it really like to grow old in Ireland? A major new study, which launched…
Author: The Irish Times
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Starting Over, With a Second Career Goal of Changing Society
By Steve Lohr Harvard kicked off a small but ambitious experiment this week that it hopes will become a new “third stage” of university education. For the student-fellows in the program, most in their 50s and early 60s, the goal is a second-act career in…
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84% of NI People Have Made No Provision For Future Care
More than four out of five people in Northern Ireland have made no provision for their care in the future, while a full one-third of elderly people say their greatest fear is of having to move into a care home, because of worries about the…
Author: University of Ulster
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Reading, math eat up class hours
By Ruma Kumar The pressure for elementary schools to show progress under No Child Left Behind has come at a cost – less time is being devoted to social studies, science, art and music. But time for reading and math has received a substantial boost,…
Author: Baltimore Sun
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In Equality We Trust?
By Nancy Folbre. Trust in other people greases the wheels of economic development. The management maven Steven Covey argues that high-trust companies are more successful than others. Higher incomes, in turn, seem to carry trust to higher levels. But as a recent Economix post by…
Author: Economix