UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

Supporting Ageing in the 21 st Century, much had been done to move forward research that is matching policy requirements, focusing on providing evidence for clinical practice, and becoming outcome focused. Example: Implementing Evidence Based Guidance for Dementia Palliative Care (L-R) : Dr. Nicola Cornally, Dr. Irene Hartigan and Dr. Elaine Lehane.

SUPPORTING AGEING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Supported Ageing in 21 st Century (SA-C21) is a research group that conducts nationally and internationally applied research to improve the experiences and outcome of older people living with complex conditions e.g. multi-morbidity, frailty or dementia.

The group, led by Professor Corina Naughton and Dr. Nicola Cornally brings together academic and clinical partners to address ‘wicket problems’ facing our ageing communities including:

• constrained resources, • a global shortage of nurses to meet an ageing population demand, • knowledge deficits in evidence-based interventions: – hospital-associated decline during acute care – sub-optimum transitions in care – community based health promotion – case management models for supported ageing in preferred place – advanced care planning in acute and community care – carer supports including aged carers – age attuned environment

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