http://hdl.handle.net/10147/42489 Search the Channel search http://www.lenus.ie/hse/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/10147/197236 Title: Carers in Ireland - statistical and geographical overview<br/><br/>Description: Ireland’s ageing population represents a critical challenge to the development of appropriate health and social service provision, both for carers and those requiring care. While it is Government policy to favour home and community care over long term residential care, support provided to Family Carers is vital if older people and those requiring care are to continue living in their own homes and communities.This report was commissioned by The Carers Association to provide a statistical profile of Family Carers and those who receive care at an EU constituency, national and county level. The information contained in the report is primarily derived from the Census of Population 2006, with supplementary information from the Department of Social and Family Affairs, the OECD and The Carers Association. Information is presented in tabular, graph and map form supported by commentary. This provides a comprehensive representation of the spatial and temporal patterns that are observed. Additional tables are provided in an annex to limit the number of tables within the main body of the report. This report provides a valuable resource for the planning of care provision in Ireland in the foreseeable future and will help The Carers Association to provide a more informed service to its members. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/197229 Title: Family carers health survey [Presentation]<br/><br/>Authors: O'Brien, Finian Dr. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/197189 Title: An assessment of Ireland's approach to combating poverty and social exclusion among children from European and local perspectives<br/><br/>Authors: Frazer, Hugh; Devlin, Maurice<br/><br/>Description: The purpose of this research project has been to examine the Irish institutional and policy framework for combating child poverty and social exclusion from a European Union (EU) perspective and from the perspective of local disadvantaged communities, with a view to identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the Irish approach. The European perspective was developed through a detailed examination of the lessons learned on tackling child poverty and social exclusion from the European Union’s Social Inclusion Process between 2000 and 2009. The perspective of local disadvantaged communities was developed through a series of case studies in disadvantaged communities in Ireland that involved people either experiencing poverty themselves or working with those who do. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/197171 Title: Rights based approaches to food poverty in Ireland<br/><br/>Authors: O’Connor, Deirdre; Cantillon, Sara; Walsh, Judy<br/><br/>Description: In Ireland food poverty has emerged as an increasingly important issue on the social policy agenda. The reasons for this include the changing understanding of the nature of food poverty, its causes, dimensions and the development of solutions, as well as a growing awareness that food remains a central dimension of people’s experience of poverty even within industrialised countries. Alongside these developments there is a growing interest in the role of rights-based approaches to poverty alleviation generally and specifically to the issue of food poverty. This paper begins by mapping the main contours of the international human rights system and academic literature in order to ground food poverty within the overarching political and legal framework. In view of the fact that food poverty is central to people’s experience of poverty, it is necessary to review the conceptual literature on poverty generally and to identify the primary state-level mechanisms associated with poverty alleviation. More specifically, this study also identifies the key concepts, actors and interventions that pertain to food poverty in Ireland. This is followed by a summary of the discussion and analysis generated from a one-day workshop which took place in Dublin in March 2008, at which various stakeholders explored the potential of using rights-based approaches to food poverty in Ireland. The paper concludes that rights-based approaches have not featured prominently in interventions to address issues of poverty in general, or food poverty specifically, and activists and practitioners working in the arena of food poverty point to significant challenges in progressing this approach. Institutional resistance to the adoption of a rights-based approach is a significant factor, as is the primacy of private sector interests who are the ‘gatekeepers’ of the contemporary food system. At the same time, insights from the work of human rights organisations who work on food and those who use the approach in other settings suggest that it is a promising avenue to explore. Of particular significance is its potential to address issues of power relations between marginalised groups and policy-makers and to locate local issues and responses within a framework of international human rights law. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/197169 Title: Competence and compassion; End-of-life care map<br/><br/>Description: A resource map on end-of-life care which covers five sections including; diagnosing dying, recognising end-of-life, communicating in difficult circumstances, advance care planning and communicating CPR decisions with the patient and family. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/197029 Title: Elmhurst Nursing Home registration inspection report, 31 May and 1 June 2011<br/><br/>Authors: Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), Social Service Inspectorate (SSI) http://hdl.handle.net/10147/196491 Title: Between worlds the experiences and needs of former family carers<br/><br/>Authors: McCarron, Mary; Breen, Marianne Dr.; Cronin, Tricia; Hynes, Geralyn; O'Sullivan, Liam http://hdl.handle.net/10147/196489 Title: Living with dementia an introduction for family carers<br/><br/>Authors: Alzheimer Society of Ireland<br/><br/>Description: Reading this booklet will help you and yourfamily to begin to work out how to live withdementia. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/196455 Title: Implementing policy for dementia care in Ireland: the time for action is now<br/><br/>Authors: O'Shea, Eamon<br/><br/>Description: Dementia is a relatively new area of policy focus, despite the expanding number of people worldwide affected by different dementia disorders. Few countries have specific health and social care policies for the condition and where there is a policy it is mostly encompassed in wider generic policies and statements on ageing. In addition, discussions of public policy issues in respect of dementia are relatively rare in the research literature (OECD, 2004). Similarly, the health economics of dementia is in its infancy. This too is surprising, given that dementia is one of the most devastating and costly group of diseases and its impact on the care systems of all countries will increase in the future due to population ageing.This paper makes the case for a significant public investment in dementia care as part of a new strategy of making dementia a national health priority. http://hdl.handle.net/10147/196454 Title: Perceptions of stigma in dementia: an exploratory study<br/><br/>Authors: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin<br/><br/>Description: There are currently more than 33,000 people known to have dementia in Ireland. Due toits complex and multi-faceted nature, the impact of dementia on all those affected isextensive. Existing theories of stigma posit that possessing a disability such as dementiacan result in a perception of difference between the person and others in the community,and potentially predispose the person with dementia to stigmatisation and discrimination.By association carers/family members of the person with dementia may also be subject tothe effects of stigma or its components. It has been suggested that dementia relatedstigma is a concern in terms of the provision of dementia care and that it poses anobstacle to the well-being and quality of life of persons with dementia and their carers.To date this subject has not been explored in-depth from an Irish perspective.Consequently, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland commissioned this exploratory research,to better understand this issue and gain insight into how to respond to dementia related stigma in an Irish context.