http://hdl.handle.net/10147/48927 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:05:44 GMT 2013-06-19T08:05:44Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/266932 Title: Strategies to promote the health of lesbians and gay men. Authors: Dillon, Brian; Collins, Eoin Description: "Mental Health: Lesbians and Gay Men - Strategies to Promote the Mental Health of Lesbians and Gay Men" is the first Irish report to concentrate solely on the experience of gay men and lesbians with regard to mental health. The impetus for this research initiative came from a number of representations made to both Gay HIV Strategies and the Northern Area Health Board (NAHB) in 1999. The NAHB had been contacted by members of the gay community about concerns regarding the rate of suicide amongst this group. The work completed by Gay HIV Strategies on areas such as HIV prevention and education also identified mental health as a key area of concern. A partnership developed between Gay HIV Strategies and the NAHB that began with the organisation of a number of information seminars. We began to review the literature on this issue and decided that additional information was required on the nature of the problem in an Irish context. Suicidality is very much linked with mental health difficulties so we decided that a broader project examining the mental health issues of the gay community was required and set about seeking funding to realise this objective. We were fortunate to bring together a committed multi-agency Advisory Group for the initiative that took the time to deliberate over the complexity of the issues involved and helped inform the thinking of the researchers. This multi-agency group was made up of representatives from the Irish College of General Practitioners, the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the Northern Area Health Board, Gay HIV Strategies, the Department 6f Health and Children, academics working in the area of psychology and representatives of the gay community working in the area of community development and health promotion. It was our intention that the final report would be an accessible document for a wide audience and that it would clearly "outline areas for action. We are indebted to the National Suicide Review Group for financial support for this piece of work. We are satisfied that the research initiative undertaken by the Nexus Research Co-operative meets an important information need in our current knowledge about these matters and importantly gives us practical ways forward in addressing the mental health needs of this sizeable group of the population which often remains invisible to service providers. We believe that the partnership between the Northern Area Health Board and Gay HIV Strategies will continue and can work with other agencies to realise the recommendations identified in this report. Gay HIV Strategies and Health Promotion Department (NAHB) June 2004 Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/266932 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/266572 Title: St Ita's Hospital services for the intellectually disabled. Authors: Northern Area Health Board (NAHB) Description: The provision of services for the intellectually disabied, particularly the moderate and severely handicapped with challenging behaviour, has been a feature of overall services in the large psychiatric hospitals. Services for the intellectually disabled have. always been a major component of service delivery at S1. Ita's Hospital, Portrane, where upwards of 50% of patients in the Hospital would be classified as persons with intellectual disability at anyone time. In 1974 those services were formalised with the appointment of a Medical Director of Intellectual Disability at the HospitaL Over the years ongoing progress has been made in developing specialist services for the intellectually disabled at S1. Ita's. The Hospital was segregated on a phased basis. This process was completed in the late 80s with the Hospital being formally divided between Psychiatry and Intellectual Disability Services. The service, as developed, encompassed residential care, including day care at St. Ita's, the provision of day facilities in the community and an evolving programme of community houses. In the late 80s the Good Counsel Centre in Ballyboden was developed arid became the hub of a statutory intellectual disability service south of the river Liffey. Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/266572 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/265396 Title: Northern Area Health Board directory of services for older persons Authors: Northern Area Health Board (NAHB) Description: The demographic profile of the population in our Board's area is changing with increasing numbers of people living into old age. Whilst most people will have an active and healthy old age, there are a sizeable minority of old persons who are likely to require support and care, as they grow older. Research indicates that many older persons are in need of some care and some are in need significant levels of care up to and including residential care. From the late sixties there has been a marked increase in the level of affluence in the country as a whole. This however has been accompanied by significant social change such as a decline in the pattern of extended families and the decrease in the incidence of volunteerism and relative carers. This change has increased the number of older . persons presenting for services, changed the mix and type of client; has raised expectations on quality of service; and has led to move away from volunteer / relative carer provision of service to health service provision. Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/265396 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10147/265394 Title: Northern Area Health Board review of services for older persons Authors: Northern Area Health Board (NAHB) Description: The demographic profile of the population in our Board's area is changing with increasing numbers of people living into old age. Whilst most people will have an active and healthy old age, there are a sizeable minority of old persons who are likely to require support and care, as they grow older. Research indicates that many older persons are in need of some care and some in need of significant levels of care up to and including residential care. It is important that ageing is not perceived as an illness and that the vast majority of older persons live healthy and fulfilled lives independent of the health services, with assistance from Family, friends and neighbours. Their experiences, values and knowledge should be recognised and incorporated into all services planned for and with older persons in mind. Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10147/265394 2003-06-01T00:00:00Z