Scholarly Impact Report 2023

CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

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THEME 1 - AGEING INTEGRATED RESEARCH

Professor Cornally presents at the 2nd German Advance Care Planning Congress. Professor Nicola Cornally was invited by the German Advance Care Planning Association ACP Deutschland e.V to present at the 2nd German ACP Congress, which took place in Cologne from November 8-10. Nicola provided the audience with an overview of the findings and key conclusions from the mySupport study (mysupportstudy.eu) which were recently published in The Gerontologist Implementation of an advance care planning intervention in nursing homes: an international multiple case study | The Gerontologist | Oxford Academic (oup.com) Session Title: ‘Nurse-family led Advance Care Planning intervention for long-term care residents with advanced dementia.’ Team Leads: Professor Nicola Cornally (PI) & Dr Irene Hartigan (WP lead)

Mapping Stroke Services for People living with Stroke and their Families: Creation of a National Protocol (MAPStrokeNP). The National Clinical Programme for Stroke in Ireland aims to provide access to ongoing support to maximise post-stroke quality of life. While there are national plans to encompass the entire continuum of care from primary prevention to life after stroke, services across Ireland are currently fragmented and exclusionary. People living with stroke and their families remain unaware of many stroke support services or how to access them. This research, a collaboration between UCC and Cork Stroke Support CLG will address this through the development of a National Protocol template and a blueprint for stroke support services that can be utilised in other regions across Ireland and internationally. Barriers to accessing stroke services will be identified by people living with stroke which will inform potential implementation issues of the National Stroke Strategy.

There are a range of supports available in the HSE, Voluntary and Charity organisations but this information is not easy to find. This research will identify all national and local (Cork/Kerry) information related to stroke services, including what services they provide, who would be eligible and how people would go about accessing the services. We will also ask a group of people living with stroke and their families about what difficulties they would have and what would help them to access these services. We will publish a booklet outlining the information we found about all stroke services and make available to HSE services, Voluntary and Charity organisations in Ireland. Thank you to the Irish Research Council New Foundations 2023 Award for supporting this project.

• Dr Irene Hartigan, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC

• Dr Helen Kelly, Senior Lecturer, School of Clinical Therapies, UCC

• Mary Foley, Programme and Clinical Advisor, Cork Stroke Support

https://www. advancecareplanning. de/acpkoeln2023/

• Dr Patrick Barry, Consultant Geriatrician and Stroke Physician, Cork University Hospital

• Shauna Bell, PhD Candidate, Speech and Hearing Sciences, UCC • Research Assistant (to be recruited), Speech and Hearing Sciences, UCC