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.
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (ROI), Brendan Howlin TD, and Minister of State for Public Service Reform and the Office of Public Works, Brian Hayes TD, recently published (14 January 2014) the ROI Government’s new Public Service Reform Plan 2014-2016 and the Second Progress Report on its previous Reform Plan. It contains a number of measures in the health sector that concern older people.
To mark Human Rights Day (10 Dec 2013), HelpAge has published new research that reveals the diversity of discrimination faced by older people around the world. It carried out surveys in Mozambique, Peru and Kyrgyzstan, asking one hundred older people in each country about their experiences of discrimination.