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The Atlantic Fellows
[caption id="attachment_83347" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Senior Fellows convening, hosted by the Atlantic Institute at Rhodes House, Oxford, in February 2018. Credit: Atlantic Institute.[/caption] “Use your wealth to help people. Use your wealth to create institutions to help people. When it comes down to it, it’s always…
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Minister for Older People Launches ‘Living with Dementia’ – A Psychological and Social Research Programme in Dementia Care
Source: School of Social Work and Social Policy
The Living with Dementia programme seeks to impact on policy development and contribute to the design of best practice models for those affected by dementia. Dublin, Thursday, April 29th, 2010 – ‘Living with Dementia’ is a psychological and social research programme in dementia care that…
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Dementia
People with dementia should be able to get the care they need and for as long as they can while living at home, where they can stay connected to family and community. In pursuit of that goal, our grantmaking in the Republic of Ireland and…
Resource type: Issues
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The Alzheimer Society of Ireland Calls on the Government to Develop 'A Comprehensive and Robust National Dementia Strategy'
Source: The Alzheimer Society of Ireland
Maurice O’Connell (left) CEO of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland & Dr. Diarmuid O'Shea, HSE Clinical Director for the ElderlyNational Dementia Strategy needed urgently as dementia demographics in Ireland set to treble by 2041.The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has called on the Government to honour…
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Government Launches Irish National Dementia Strategy
Source: Department of Health Ireland
Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Tánaiste Joan Burton and Minister for Primary and Social Care Kathleen Lynch today (Wednesday 17th December 2014) launched the Irish National Dementia Strategy. This honours the commitment in the Programme for Government to develop a national Alzheimer’s and other dementias strategy to…
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Lessons Learned: the “Harvest Time” reports
[caption id="attachment_83415" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Atlantic staff in 2016[/caption] In 2010, Atlantic commissioned philanthropy consultant Tony Proscio, in conjunction with Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society, to write a series of reports charting the final years of the foundation, the largest endowed institution…
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South Tipperary Dementia Project Launched
Source: Genio
Launch of the "5 Steps to Living Well with Dementia" project in South TipperarySouth Tipperary has been selected as the site for an innovative pilot project to develop and test new service models aiming to divert significant numbers of people with dementia from institutional care.…
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A Laughing Matter: SF Comedian Looks to Tell the Stories of Dementia Patients, Caregivers
Source: University of California San Francisco
Kornbluth is one of 32 inaugural Atlantic Fellows at the Global Brain Health Institute, a collaboration between the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF and Trinity College, in Dublin, Ireland.
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Creating Excellence in Dementia Care: A Research Review for Ireland’s National Dementia Strategy
Source: The School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin and The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUIG
More people in Ireland have dementia than cancer or heart disease yet it has been a largely invisible and underfunded health issue, according to a new report by Suzanne Cahill and Maria Pierce from the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin;…
Resource type: Research Report
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Warning Over Rise in Dementia
Source: Irish Times
By Ronan McGreeveyThe number of people with dementia in Ireland is expected to triple over the next 30 years and will be a “huge burden” on the state without a long-term strategy, the Minister for Health James Reilly has warned.Currently, an estimated 41,000 Irish people…
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