Scholarly Impact Report 2023

CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

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THEME 1 - AGEING INTEGRATED RESEARCH

Ageing Integrated Research Cluster hosts its Annual Research Conference. The Ageing Integrated Research Cluster in the School hosted its annual research conference on the Thursday 20th April 2023. Our conference brought together evidence-based practice initiatives from the community, acute and long-term care to support palliative care approaches for older persons with identified needs in a timely and enabling way.

‘Palliative and End of Life Care in Residential Care Settings.’ Prof Michael Connolly/AIIHPC University College Dublin. DO NOT ATTEMPT CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (DNA CPR)/ Treatment Escalation Plan. Amanda Brolly (ANP). Prevalence of End of Life Care Planning in an Acute Model 4 A hospital. Anthony Hoey (ADON & PhD student). Screening for Advanced Care Planning in Integrated Care Service for Older people (ICPOP). Dr Liz O Connell (ANP, ICPOP). Conversations on living and dying: Facilitating advance care planning for older people living with advancing frailty. Dr Sarah Combes Research Fellow in Palliative Care and Ageing, University of Surry & Associate Clinical Nurse Specialist St Christopher’s Hospice. An overview of the upcoming Irish Model of Dementia Palliative Care. Dr. Siobhan Fox, University College Cork mySupport Study - Supporting care home staff to engage in decision-making with family carers: scaling up an educational intervention. Dr Cornally University College Cork Co-producing the Think Ahead Planning pack. Valerie Smith, Irish hospice Foundation

‘Palliative and end-of-life care for older persons’ was an exciting and thought-provoking event. Over 110 people logged in and we had over 300 people register for our event. Outline of the day: Our conference was opened by

Professor Nicola Cornally outlining the changing policy and clinical landscape of palliative care and exploring innovative ways to support older people to identify what matters now and into the future. Themes for the event: • National Model for Dementia Palliative Care including • End-of-life care in Long-term Care • Advance Care Planning in Acute and Ambulatory Care Cutting edge research presentations included: Supporting advance care planning discussions in community settings through training and information: the development of two digital resources: Dr Julie Doherty is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast

Please find the link to the conference recording here: https://youtu.be/s6tI-3PI4sU Link to website here: https://www.ucc.ie/en/nursingmidwifery/ research/ageing/