UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery Annual Report 2020

Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC

Translating Evidence & Innovation for Health

THEME 1 – SUPPORTING AGEING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Supported Ageing in 21st Century (SA-C21) is a research group that conduct nationally and internationally applied research to improve the experiences and outcome of older people living with complex conditions including 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

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 multiagency 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.

Visit our website for news updates: https://www.ucc.ie/en/nursingmidwifery/research/supportingaginginthe21stcenturysage21/

The following five stories provide examples of some of the work undertaken as part of this research group in 2020.

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