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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 - D
Project Lead
Dr Carole Parsons, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Queens University Belfast
Researchers:
School of Pharmacy
Queen's University Belfast
School of Pharmacy
Queen's University Belfast
Centre for Public Health
Queen's University Belfast
Geriatric Medicine
Cork University Hospital
School of Pharmacy
University College Cork
- Professor Carmel Hughes, Chair in Primary Care Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast
- Professor Peter Passmore, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Queen's University Belfast
- Dr Denis O'Mahony, University College Cork
- Dr Stephen Byrne, University College Cork
- Alzheimer's Society (NI) and the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland (ROI)
Despite the increase in the prevalence and incidence of dementia research into palliative care for patients with advanced dementia is limited. This novel study will seek to evaluate, in Ireland (North and South), the extent to which patient-related factors influence clinical decision-making in respect to medication use in patients with end-stage dementia.
Researchers:
Project: ‘Diet and risk for age-related macular degeneration.’
Project Lead
Dr Charlotte Neville
- Centre for Public Health, QUB
Mentor: Professor Jayne Woodside, QUB
For the CARDI Leadership Programme Dr Charlotte Neville will explore the impact of stress on the neurocognitive and cardiovascular health of older adults in the North and South of Ireland, using data from NICOLA and TILDA. The experience of severe or persistent psychological stress can alter immune mediators, trigger inflammatory processes and increase oxidative stress, damaging brain and cardiovascular health.
Project Lead
Dr Frank Doyle, Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Researchers:
- Professor Ronan Conroy, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, RCSI
- Dr Anne Hickey, Psychology, RCSI
- Dr Caroline Kelleher, Psychology, RCSI
Moderate to high levels of physical activity can reduce the odds of having depression by half or more. Pain has been shown to be associated with a greater risk of depression among older people and also a potential reason for not engaging in physical activity.
Dr Doyle will investigate the extent to which pain interacts with depression and physical activity in Ireland, north and south, which has potentially crucial clinical and policy implications for older people.
