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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 - I
Project Lead
Dr Joanne Feeney
Researchers:
TILDA
Trinity College Dublin
- Queen’s University Belfast
Mentors: Professor Ian Young and Professor Rose Anne Kenny
For the CARDI Leadership Programme Dr Joanne Feeney 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
Professor Paddy Hillyard, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Queen’s University Belfast
Researchers:
- Professor Paddy Hillyard, Emeritus Professor Queen’s University Belfast
- Dr Maureen Lyons, Senior Researcher, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin
- Dr Demi Patsios, Policy Research Consultant
- Dr Francesca Lundstrom, Social Policy Consultant
- Mr David Taylor, Chartered Accountant and Management Consultant
- Ms Sarah Machniewsk, post-graduate student, Queen’s University Belfast
The purpose of the study was to analyse the impact of the recession on older people in Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and the extent to which inequalities within the older population have been affected by the economic crisis.
Read the final report here.
Project Lead
Dr Anna Gavin, Director, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Queen’s University Belfast
Researchers:
NI Cancer Registry, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences
Queen's University Belfast
- Dr Linda Sharp, Epidemiologist, National Cancer Registry Ireland
- Mr Conan Donnelly, Statistician, Queen’s University Belfast on secondment from the NI Statistics and Research Agency
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in Ireland, with 3,609 cases diagnosed in 2008. A new study funded by CARDI states that the rate is 12 times higher in men aged 70+ than in younger men; deaths from prostate cancer are 74 times higher for men aged 70+ than for those under 70.
The research, led by Dr Anna Gavin at the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, found that access to urologists and curative treatment has increased for all men since the mid-1990s. However older men are less likely to see a urologist or have radical treatment than younger men.
