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The roots of the global financial crisis, and the paths out of it, are matters for debate. But what no one disputes is that the landscape in which foundations like Atlantic are working has been dramatically altered, and likely will be for some time to…

by Sarah Stack TAOISEACH Brian Cowen's plan to press ahead with a scheme to means-test people over 70 for a medical card was condemned last night. Age Action said it was disturbed that, despite widespread public outrage, Mr Cowen still wanted to scrap free health…

The confusion created by the mess over whether over-70s will retain their right to a medical card has created huge uncertainty for the health service and the elderly, reports Aileen O'Meara. As the opposition loudly hammered government ministers in the Dáil last Thursday for abolishing…

by Eilish O'Regan, Senan Molony and Aine Kerr Most of the 140,000 pensioners affected by the controversial Budget measures will still lose out on a full over-70s medical card, despite an embarrassing government climbdown last night. In the face of a blistering backlash, Health Minister…

Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. by Gary Culliton The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, has launched The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) Health Assessment Centre at Trinity College Dublin and the public phase of the TILDA study that involves interviewing 8,000 older…

In their new book, “Half the Sky,” Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn assert that there can be no social or economic justice, or human rights progress around the world, that does not have women and girls at its core. It’s a…

Original Source The TILDA study is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. The Irish population is getting older at an unprecedented rate, and now a new 10-year study is aiming to make Ireland the best place in the world…

Migrant workers play a vital role in the care of older people in the United Kingdom but they face poor pay and working conditions that the government must address to ensure fair treatment for the workers, according to this report funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies…

by CARL O'BRIEN INDEPENDENT INSPECTIONS of all public and private nursing homes will officially come into force from today as part of a new initiative to promote better standards of care. A team of about 45 inspectors from the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa)…

Original Source Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. CLAIRE O’CONNELL reports on the rationale behind a new study on ageing in the Republic which has just been launched WHAT IS it really like to grow old in Ireland? A major new study, which launched…