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Parents Bankrolling Adult Children and Not Looking After Own Health – Study
TCD’s Tilda began tracking over 8,000 adults aged 50 and over in 2010. Photograph: Getty Images By Paul Cullen Ireland’s older adults are bankrolling their children, providing care for their grandchildren but leaving their own health challenges untreated or undiagnosed, a new study suggests. Older…
Author: The Irish Times
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Planning for the Afterlife
As Atlantic winds up its work, we’re also laying the foundation for post-life communications. The big question: How will we have influence after the last check is written? By David Morse and Elizabeth Cahill At The Atlantic Philanthropies, our communications goals are simple and straightforward.…
Author: Change Agent
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The Irish-American Billionaire Who Gave Away His Fortune
Chuck Feeney with Ed Walsh, then president of University of Limerick, and Frank Rhodes, president of Cornell, meeting in Plessy House, Limerick, in 1988 at the beginning of a process that would translate into hundreds of millions for higher education in Ireland. Chuck Feeney, ‘the…
Author: The Irish Times
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University of Melbourne to Lead 20-Year Leadership Program to Tackle Social Inequality
A new fellowship dedicated to supporting mid-career leaders in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities over the next two decades will be launched by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra this morning. The Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program, led by the University of Melbourne, alongside national…
Author: University of Melbourne
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TILDA Celebrates Ten Years of Research Into the Challenges of Ageing in Ireland
The study, which has 8,500 participants from across the country, has been internationally recognised for its wide focus of the issues facing older people. By Simon Foy, Senior Editor Photo: Sinéad Baker for The University Times The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, which is based…
Author: The University Times
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Olin Lecture Reflects on Philanthropy of Chuck Feeney '56
Christopher G. Oechsli, foreground, speaks with President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, center, and interim President Hunter Rawlings during the 2016 Olin Lecture in Bailey Hall. Photo: Lindsay France/University Photography By Blaine Friedlander In the Olin Lecture – a Reunion weekend highlight – Christopher G. Oechsli,…
Author: Cornell Chronicle
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Are We Seeing a New ‘Inequality Paradigm’ in Social Science?
Mike Savage is Academic Director of the Atlantic Fellows program at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. Social scientists have long been concerned with inequality, yet the focus has often been on its theoretical and political aspects. This is now starting to change, writes Mike Savage, co-director of…
Author: LSE British Policy and Politics Blog
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Atlantic Fellows: Advancing Fairer, Healthier, More Inclusive Societies
From their inception, The Atlantic Philanthropies have invested in people and in their vision, opportunity and ability to realize a better world. When Chuck Feeney established the foundation in 1982, its first grant was $7 million to Cornell University to create the Cornell Tradition, a…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
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10 Ways Mission Bay Puts Patients First
Supportive Surroundings At the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, the environment itself — not just the care and services provided there — helps support our patients and aid the healing process. Patient-Friendly Imaging Suites MRIs and other imaging tests can require having…
Author: UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals
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Atlantic Philanthropies Gives $177 Million to Establish Global Brain Health Institute to Tackle Dementia
The Atlantic Philanthropies is giving $177 million to Trinity College Dublin and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), a groundbreaking initiative that aims to tackle the looming dementia epidemic and improve health and dementia care worldwide. This…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies