UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

Clinical & Integrated Programmes HSE, visited the School of Nursing and Midwifery recently to meet undergraduate students. pictured (L-R): Teresa Wills, Deirdre Lang, Caroline Kilty, Irene Hartigan, Patricia Fehin

The SA-C21 endeavours to improve the quality of life and experience for older people across the ageing life course including death through transdisciplinary and multi-agency research. The SA-C21 works in partnership with older people, clinical partners and international collaborators to generate, apply and translate multidisciplinary research into clinical practice across care settings.

Examples of research include:

• An EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (Jpnd). Scaling Up The Family Carer Decision Support Intervention: A Transnational Effectiveness-Implementation Evaluation conducted by Dr. Nicola Cornally, Dr. Irene Hartigan, Dr. Serena Fitzgerald and Collaborators. Twelve care homes will be enrolled that provide care for residents living with dementia in six countries, two care homes per country: United Kingdom (Belfast); Republic of Ireland (Cork County); Netherlands (Leiden); Canada (Hamilton, Montreal); Czech Republic (Prague); Italy (Turin). • HRB Clinical Partnership award relating to the implementation of Frailty Care Bundle (FCB) for older people in acute care settings: an implementation science study led by Professor Corina Naughton in partnership with S/SWHG.

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