OTOH = Older Traveller, Older Homeless. Account for a HSE-funded research project being conducted at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway.
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To see key outputs from the @OTOH_study go to icsg.ie/our-projects/otoh/. There you'll find our Briefing Report series which has just been launched.
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Catherine Day: Importance of care key Citizens’ Assembly theme irishtimes.com/opinion/cathe…
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I'm considering running my "Childhood Trauma, Consequences and Essential Responses" before the summer, over six-eight weeks as an evening course, probably on Zoom. Anyone interested?
Registration is now open for the final seminar on Marginalised Ageing and Inclusive Systems, co-hosted by @icsg_nuig @CESRD_NUIG & @irishgerontsoc. The seminar looks at Family Carers, Public Policy and Dementia. Happening Thursday 22nd April at 3pm. zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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More than two million people aged 55 and over are living in a home that endangers their health or wellbeing. #StateofAgeing2020
Find out more: ageing-better.org.uk/housing…
Want to know more about social exclusion in later life? See this open access book co-edited by @OTOH_study principle investigator Prof Kieran Walsh
We're pleased to announce the publication of our book Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives (eds Kieran Walsh @TomScharfNcl @SofieVanRegenm_ @WankaAnna) @SpringerOpen. Thanks to @COSTprogramme
Free access via:
springer.com/gp/book/9783030…
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Travellers and homeless people to be prioritised for Covid-19 vaccine due to higher risk of illness buff.ly/3fvzptc
Our @icsg_nuig colleagues on the DAISIE project are presenting their work tomorrow at 2pm on gender and work-life experiences for older people.
Join us tomorrow for our next @Whitaker_Inst webinar! The DAISIE project investigates the gender-differentiated work-life experiences, health and financial outcomes of workers in three occupations aged 50 and over in five European countries. Register: whitakerinstitute.ie/event/h…
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Are you our new #postdoc for #lifecourse #research on #exclusion #inequality in late #workinglife in #Europe @ASC_LiU @liu_universitet?
You can still apply until March 31, 2021.
@EIWO_programme #sociology #lifecourse #economics #policy
liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacanc…
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Reporting racism is important. If we don't, it stays invisible. We know that Travellers experiences of racism are significantly under reported. See below the steps you can take to report and record online racism
#TogetherAgaisntRacism #FightRacism
@INARIreland
Ever wondered how hearing & transcribing stories of trauma affects transcribers? Sign up now for the last in a series of seminars on Emotionally Traumatic Research (organised by @OTOH_study researcher Brídín Carroll), on tomorrow 1-2.30pm: icsg.ie/emotionally-traumati… @ResearchatNUIG
The final seminar on Emotionally Traumatic Research (organised by @OTOH_study researcher Brídín Carroll) takes place Tues 23rd Mar, 1-2.30pm. For info & to register: icsg.ie/emotionally-traumati… @ResearchatNUIG @NUIGalwayEvents @AcademicChatter @PhDchatter @PhDVoice @OpenAcademics
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FREE TO READ!
A Double Burden of Exclusion? Digital and Social Exclusion of Older Adults in Times of COVID-19 by @aseifert1981, @Shelia_Cotten, & Xie
In @geronsociety #JGSS #SeriesB available free at:
doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa0…
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#Covid19 and #HealthInequalities
“Public health must win the peace as well as the war.”
Longer-term policy responses must address the health inequalities #syndemic, as well as the Covid #pandemic
@ProfBambra et al
@JECH_BMJ
jech.bmj.com/content/74/11/9…
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We asked people who need social care how they were coping during the pandemic - what they told us shows a system that isn’t able to give people the care they need. It’s time for the Government to act. It’s #TimeToCare
ALT More than 1 in 4 said their health had deteriorated because of a lack of social care
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In a recent report it was revealed that health and wealth inequalities between men and women are at their highest amongst people in their 50s which means that women are entering later life significantly worse off than men.
ageing-better.org.uk/blogs/w…
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New article “Social Isolation in Late Life: The Importance of Place, Disadvantage and Diversity” from the #HSIIP team @Amanda__Grenier @EquityBurke @JWard_14 Glenys Currie and Susannah Watson tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1… @UofT_FIFSW @GilbreaCentre @HamOnt_Aging #isolation #aging
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Out Now: The Impact of Covid-19 on Homeless Service Providers & Homeless People: The Migrant Perspective
🔗 bit.ly/MigrantPerspective
Our report aims to understand the experience of homeless migrants and service providers throughout the pandemic looking at both data and stories.
If you missed the third in the series of seminars on Emotionally Traumatic Research (organised by @OTOH_study researcher Brídín Carroll), the recording of the seminar can be accessed here: youtube.com/watch?v=Q7EaTpWB…
Sign up now for the third in the series of seminars (organised by @OTOH_study researcher Brídín Carroll) on Emotionally Traumatic Research. Happening tomorrow 2nd March 3-4.30pm. For more information and to register go to: icsg.ie/emotionally-traumati… #emotionallytraumaticresearch