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As of the 24 September 2015 The Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) became the Ageing Research and Development Division within the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH).
This website will remain online but will no longer be updated. To keep up to date with our work please visit the Division of Ageing Research and Development section of the IPH website.
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Research Projects - ALL
Project Lead
Professor Eamon O’Shea, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway
Researchers:
Irish Centre for Social Gerontology
National University of Ireland, Galway
Queen's University Belfast
Economics
NUI Galway
- Dr Kieran Walsh, The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland Galway
- Dr Michael Murray, Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning, Queen's University Belfast
- Dr Sheelah Connolly, Centre for Clinical and Population Studies, Queen's University Belfast
- Mr Mark Allen and Ms Caroline McGuire, Rural Community Network
- Ms. Martina Gavin, FORUM, Rural Community Development Organisation
- Dr John McDonagh, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Galway
This will be the first study to address the important question: is rural Ireland a good place to grow old?
The project will be carried out by Healthy Ageing in Rural Communities Research Network (HARC) established with funding from CARDI’s Grants Call 1. It brings together multidisciplinary researchers from NUIG and Queen’s University Belfast with the Rural Community Network and FORUM Letterfrack.
Project Lead
Professor Helene McNulty, University of Ulster
- Professor Adrian Moore, Health and Health Care Geography, University Ulster
- Dr Leane Hoey, Human Nutrition, University Ulster
People who live in disadvantaged areas have a greater risk of developing cognitive dysfunction than people in better off areas, a study by Professor Helene McNulty and colleagues at the University of Ulster has found.
Researchers:
Student: Mr Mark Kirby, BSc.
Project: ‘Spatial profile of macular pigment in relation to risk factors for age-related macular degeneration’
Project Lead
Dr Elaine Murtagh, Mary Immaculate College
Researchers:
- Professor Marie Murphy, Physical Activity and Health, University Ulster
- Dr Niamh Murphy, Physical Activity and Public Health, Waterford Institute of Technology
- Dr Catherine Woods, Physical Activity and Public Health, Dublin City University
- Dr Aoife Lane, Research Methods and Statistics in Exercise and Health, Waterford Institute Technology
Regular moderate exercise is very important for maintaining good health in older age. This project will examine some of the factors linked with physical activity, such as socio-economic status, education level and access to leisure facilities.
It will assess the relationship between physical activity and self-reported health status as well as objective measures of cardiovascular disease risk.
Dr Murtagh’s research may help policy makers design interventions most likely to increase physical activity among older people.
Researchers:
Needs assessment and population screening for chronic disease in a methadone maintenance program.
- Prof Joe Barry
- Dr Brion Sweeney
Principal Investigator:
- Dr C Craig, Sociology, QUB;
Co-Investigator(s):
- Prof F Newell, Neuroscience, TCD;
- Dr S Ferguson, Electronics Engineering, QUB.
Project Lead
Dr Cathy Craig, Queen’s University Belfast
Researchers:
- Professor Fiona Newell, Trinity College Dublin
- Dr Stuart Ferguson, Queen's University Belfast
Barriers to healthy ageing include declines in both physical and mental processes (e.g. postural control and cognition). As these processes are inter-connected, this project seeks to develop intervention programmes that train the body and the mind at the same time and are adapted to the needs of older people.
Project Lead
Dr Suzanne Cahill, Dementia Service Information and Development Centre, the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
Researchers:
- Dr Suzanne Cahill, Dementia Service Information and Development Centre and the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin
- Dr Max Watson, University of Ulster and Northern Ireland Hospice
- Ms. Daphne Doran, Quality Initiatives Consultancy
This group will examine the different standards of care that exist for older people in long stay care and work with older people to draw up specific standards to meet the unique and complex end of life care needs of people with dementia.
Read the full report here.
Project Lead
Dr Declan French, Queen’s University Belfast
Researchers:
- Professor Michael Moore, Queen's University Belfast
Conventional modelling and forecasting of mortality rates relies on identifying regularities in the data but in a quite ad hoc way. Analysis helps us to understand how mortality decline has occurred, whether the same factors are responsible for declines in all age groups and whether these factors are related over time.
The objectives of the project are to undertake a statistical analysis of the static and dynamic factor structure of Irish mortality data using techniques recently developed in macroeconomic forecasting.
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