Irish Gerontological Society,
Irish Frailty Network,
Northern Ireland Frailty Network

Irish Gerontological Society and ALONE 

The 68^th IGS Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

The Irish Gerontological Society is pleased to announce that the upcoming IGS Annual and Scientific Meeting 2021 which will take place virtually on November 18th.  The theme of this year’s conference is: 70 Years of Change 1951-2021

Join World Syncope experts addressing current emerging technologies, and novel approaches to assessment and management of

syncope. 

Join World Syncope experts addressing current emerging technologies, and novel approaches to assessment and management of syncope.

About this Event - February 11, 2022

This International Virtual Conference is led by Professors Rose Anne Kenny & Conal Cunningham.

The conference will address emerging novel approaches including:

o Biomarkers

o Tilt testing

o Cerebral flow measurements

o Cardiac pacing

o Long COVID and its relationship to POTS

The Keynote Speaker Professor Robert Sheldon will discuss the POST trials.

Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/novel-developments-in-syncope-and-related-di...

The conference is the first BIASP (rather than BASP conference) trainees meeting and is aimed at health professionals managing Stroke patients. It has talks on hyperacute stroke management, rural stroke management, complex vasculopathies, managing long term spasticity and stroke complications. There is also a session on maximising opportunities for those who are undertaking Stroke fellowships or working as a stroke trainee.

https://fitwise.eventsair.com/biasp-trainee-2022/

Life After Retirement - A Public Lecture by Professor Eamon O'Shea (ESRI) in collaboration with the HSE

Retirement is one of the major life events that affects people’s economic circumstances, quality of life, well-being and relationships.  There are many pathways to retirement, mainly because decisions to stop working for pay are embedded in contextual circumstances, incorporating individual’s attributes, gender, current and past economic status, family structure, social networks, pension provision and government regulation.  Retirement may be voluntary or involuntary, planned or unplanned, short or long and positive or negative in terms of impact on health and well-being.  This lecture examines life after retirement from different perspectives: individual attributes; pre-retirement employment; family circumstances and relationships; retirement transition planning; and post-retirement activities.   Much of the lecture is devoted to exploring different ways to make retirement more enjoyable and fulfilling for individuals, families and communities.

Speaker Professsor Eamon O'Shea

Eamon O’Shea is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Research on Dementia at NUI Galway. His research is focused on the economics of ageing, especially on the balance of care between home and residential care for dependent older people. He is  a Health Research Board (HRB) Research Leader in Dementia where his work has been influential in setting the policy agenda for the care of people with dementia living at home and in residential care.
 

Chaired by 

Professor Rose Anne Kenny

Rose Anne Kenny is Professor of Medical Gerontology and Head of the academic department of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is the present President of the IGS. She is also director of the recently established Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St. James’s Hospital Dublin, which is a state of the art facility hosting ambulatory care, inpatients, education and research facilities for older adults. She is the founding Principal Investigator of Ireland’s largest adult population study on the experience of ageing– for The Irish LongituDinal study on Ageing  (TILDA). She has a high international standing for her research on ageing ranked in the top 5% of geriatric medicine publications.

Edel Mc Daid 

Edel has gained clinical experience across multiple specialties and is currently working as a senior physiotherapist in older persons rehabilitation in the Royal Hospital Donnybrook. Edel is the former Chairperson of the Neurology and Gerontology special interest group of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists. In response to the pandemic, she led in the rapid development of practice guidelines for physiotherapists working with older people and people with neurological conditions who present with COVID-19. 

Panelists

Mairead Cahill

Mairead Cahill is a PhD candidate at the School of Allied Health at the University of Limerick, a CORU registered Occupational Therapist, and a Practice Education Co-ordinator for the Discipline of Occupational Therapy at the University of Limerick. Mairead has a particular research interest in older adults. Her PhD research focuses on the retirement experiences of women academics, exploring the meaning of retirement and how retirement impacts their daily lives and relationships. is a member of the University of Limerick’s Health Research Institute and the Ageing Research Centre at UL (UL-ARC). She gained over a decade of clinical experience as an occupational therapist in acute and rehabilitation settings (physical disability) in Ireland and the UK.

Ann Nolan

Ann Nolan is Assistant Professor in Global Health and Director of the MSc in Global Health at the Trinity Centre for Global Health (TCGH). She is a technical specialist in HIV and sexual health with research interests in sexual and reproductive health and rights; the transnational dimensions of health; inclusion health, and the regulation of sexuality and other contested policy domains. Ann is a former Executive Director and Chairperson of HIV Ireland Ltd and an advocate for the rights of sexual minorities and people living with HIV. She has led the development of global policy frameworks for adolescents and most-at-risk young people with UNICEF and UNAIDS, and has been an advisor to Ireland's International Development Cooperation programme at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Irish Aid. As team lead for social science research in the Houses of the Oireachtas she supported dialogue and debate with evidence around the Termination of Pregnancy Bill, safe access zones, school-based sex education and good governance for health through the Dáil and Seanad. Ann brings to academia a lengthy professional career that has emphasised the relationship between evidence and policy at national, bilateral and multilateral levels. She was among the first mature-student graduates of the B.A. modular night-degree in University College Dublin in 1991 from which she commenced an MSc in Social Policy funded by the European Commission. She was awarded a Postgraduate Research Studentship by the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin, to undertake doctoral research in HIV and sexual health in Ireland from which she graduated in 2014.

Dr Mike O’Connor

Mike O’Connor is the National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead, Acute Hospitals and HSE Consultant Geriatrician at Cork University Hospital.

Aonghas McAnally

Aonghus McAnally is an Irish radio and television producer and presenter, as well as an actor, musician, magician and billiards champion. He worked on both sides of the mic and camera for public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann for over 40 years, retiring in June 2020.

Conference Theme: 'New Frontiers in Gerontology' 

Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th November, 2022. Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan