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Alliance calls for action on ageing
Source: The Irish Times
By Aoife Carr Shauna Golden of Castleknock Community College, Older and Bolder director Patricia Conboy, and Bernard Bryanof of, Cabra Historical & Cultural Society hand in 43,000 signed petitions in defence of the State Pension at Leinster House last month. A group representing older people has said…
Resource type: News
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Brick-by-Brick – Investing in Capital Projects for Social Change
Source: Gara LaMarche
The business of making social change often has to start from the ground up. Sometimes literally! Since its inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies has invested over $1.5 billion in a number of capital projects to build the infrastructure that enables health to be advanced, children and…
Resource type: News
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St. James’s Hospital Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing, Dublin, Ireland
The Centre of Excellence for Successful Ageing at St. James ‘s Hospital in Dublin is an example of a capital investment that went beyond mere construction. Atlantic offered the hospital a matching grant of €2.7 million over five years in 2004 enabling the hospital to obtain a long-sought…
Resource type: Video
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An Irishman's Diary
Source: The Irish Times
By Conor O'Clery. THE OTHER DAY I saw a man wearing a tie. I had never seen this man wearing a tie before, although he is 79 years old. I have travelled the world with him, eaten out in his company in cities as far…
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Lack of end-of-life support for patients
Source: Irish Examiner
By Evelyn Ring. ONE in five hospital patients at the end of their lives could have died at home if there had been enough supports, according to a unique national audit published yesterday. It found that hospital admissions through emergency departments negatively impact on patients…
Resource type: News
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Real Life: The key to long life
Source: Irish Independent - Supplement
Original Source The TILDA study is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. The Irish population is getting older at an unprecedented rate, and now a new 10-year study is aiming to make Ireland the best place in the world…
Resource type: News
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Chuck Feeney gives Qld $102m donation
Source: ABC Local (Australia)
Image: A concept drawing of the planned science and technology precinct to be built at Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point campus. The Queensland and federal governments have welcomed what they say is the largest ever medical donation in Australia's history. American philanthropist Chuck Feeney…
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Palliative care for all, not just cancer patients, hospice urges
by Grainne Cunningham NO-ONE should have to endure the "fear and the pain and the dread" that goes with terminal illness without the sort of palliative care received by writer Nuala O'Faolain in her dying days, her old friend Marian Finucane said last night. Ms…
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Bangor man given Alzheimer's study grant
Source: The Community Telegraph
A QUEEN'S academic from Bangor has been awarded £228,000 to further his research into how Alzheimer's disease progresses. Dr Stephen Todd, who works in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Queen's, has been announced as the only Beeson Ireland 2008 scholar after a transatlantic panel…
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Scheme marks the beginning of a two-tier health system
Source: Irish Examiner
by Eamon Timmins THE publication yesterday of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 marks a dramatic development in the way this country charges for essential health and nursing care services. Once it becomes law, those with dementia, paralysed by stroke or incapable due to…
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