William Stokes Unit

Tallaght Hospital - A Teaching Hospital of Trinity College Dublin

Aois agus Eolas honoured to be selected as one of three Irish research centres in Global Ageing Research Network of International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, along with Irish Centre for Social Gerontology and Netwell Centre

National Stroke Champion Award

for

Prof Des O'Neill

Latest Aois agus Eolas Research

• Older drivers - more mad and more wise!
• Automated decisions, imaging and mild cognitive impairment
• Self-awareness and driving ability after stroke
• Adaptation to stroke using a model of successful ageing
• Cost of stroke in Ireland
• Cochrane Review Shows Acute Geriatric Medicine reduces death and disability by 25%
• Self-neglect and elder abuse: related phenomena?
• You-tube and reminscence activity
• Subjective memory complaints in older people
• White matter changes in Alzheimer's disease

New

Medical Humanities Activities!

BMJ, QJM, Irish Times

• Christina's World - what great art tells us about neurodegenerative disease and Irishman's Diary comment
• Dropping the Pilot - learning from Bismarck
• How Moliere guides us on the folly of neatly planning the future - read on to the response!
• Churchill and his doctor
• Leonard Cohen blows off the dust with new album
• The Artist - The Sounds of Silence
• Jellyatrics
• Wonderful Art and Medicine Exhibition at RHA
• The Iron Lady - How Dementia tests Mrs Thatcher's Mettle
• For better ageing philosophies, vote for Berlin
• Zelenka, Columbo and 'Just one last question..'
• One Hundred Years of Flautitude - GSA and Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Donizetti and the GP - only opera festival founded by a family doctor
• Schubert, illness and creativity
• Quantitative Easing - the Academic Version
• Billroth and Brahms - Letters from a Musical Friendship
• Advance directives - a flawed vision of the future
• 4'33" and the theatre of medicine
• First Night of the Proms
• Ageism, politics and the media
• Financial abuse of older people and lawyers
• Homer Simpson and Kübler-Ross
• All That Jazz
• Strauss Metamorphosen
• Bioethics in a pluralist society
• So, when do you become 'old'?
• Dignity and dementia
• An appalling (Irish) vision
• Asthma in Music
• OnlinePharmacyTabs
• Barney's Version
• Portrait of a Lithotomy
• A Bloomsday Brush with Brilliance
• Hospitals and Prisoners - ..but everywhere lives in chains?
• The Social World of the Ants Compared With That of Man

Largest ageing research meeting ever held in Ireland!

Read report on

IGS website

Ian Wilson, Composer in Residence to Stroke Unit

1 Oct 2010

Tallaght/HSE Research on Elder Abuse

wins

Presidential Medal

at EUGMS/IGS 2010

Mini-Marathon

Support for

Aois agus Eolas

Stroke Care

and Research

7 June 2010

European Stroke Conference, Barcelona, May 2010

Eleven presentations from Stroke Service, AMNCH!

Prime Time Investigates 24 May 2010

The FrontLine

13 May:

Tallaght Stroke Service

promotes the FAST campaign to improve rates of Clot-Busting treatment for stroke

Prof O'Neill awarded inaugural 2010

All-Island Inspirational Life Award:

"..a tribute to the staff and team at Aois agus Eolas and the William Stokes Unit.."

New

Activities

• Ageing, the Demographic Dividend and Work: video from new paper by Prof O'Neill for Older and Bolder
• A Volcanic Disruption
• The Man with a Shattered World
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
• The Economist and apocalyptic demography - BMJ
• More than a number - the future of ageing - a Webcast from the Economist Intelligence Unit

2009/2010

Activities

In Education Centre, Tallaght Hospital, unless otherwise stated

30 April 2010, 8.00 am: Update on Atrial Fibrillation, Dr Noel Boyle, St James' Hospital

21 April 2010, 10.30-16.00: Seminar on Elder Abuse

17 November 2009, 8.30 pm: Music and medical composers - musique concrète based on ICU and the delivery suite. National Concert Hall, in association with Cultural Service of the French Embassy, and Composers Network

23 Oct 2009, 1.00 pm: 'Elder Abuse, the International Context', Prof Jim O'Brien, University of Louisville

2 Oct 2009 12.30 pm: Satellite Lecture, 'Osteoporosis' from Boston University by Prof Michael Holic

30 Sept 2009, 6pm: 'Late Life Creativity', lecture by Prof D O'Neill, at John Hume Building, National University of Ireland Maynooth

Our Mission

Collective ageing of our populations is one of the greatest achievements of our society. However, the benefits and needs arising out of this welcome development are as yet poorly understood by many, and this may explain an ambivalence about later life in the public domain.

A close link between science and the humanities represents the best way to forge a deeper understanding of the biological, social and psychological aspects of ageing. Aois agus Eolas - the Centre for Ageing, Neuroscience and the Humanities - is dedicated to promoting a wider understanding of ageing in Ireland, especially among healthcare workers.

The activities in the centre have included collaborations with the National Gallery of Ireland, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, RTE Lyric FM, the School of Religions and Theology (TCD), the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Dun Laoire), the Trinity College Institute of Neurosciences, and the Centre for Bioengineering (TCD).

We welcome the input of older people into this process, and encourage feedback on all of our programmes

Stroke Robotics

The Stroke Service (Director, Dr Ronan Collins) recently won Innovation Funding from HSE for the RP7 robot which can facilitate high level stroke care across hospitals in our stroke network of hospitals, including Tallaght, Naas, Mullingar, Tullamore and Portlaoise hospitals. Read more in the Irish Times

Aois agus Eolas held the Charity Premiere of the

Diving Bell and the Butterfly

in aid of Stroke Research at Tallaght

on Thursday 7th February 2008

Innovative CPD accredited Medical Humanities Lecture series at the National Gallery of Ireland

November 15, 22, 29 2007

Download Programme here!

Launch of Teaching Pack on Ageing and Health

AGEPAGEs

by Minister of State for Older People, Máire Hocter TD

seen below with Prof Desmond O'Neill and Charlie O'Connor TD

Thursday, 13 September, 2007