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Healthy Ageing

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:30:00 GMT

HEALTHY AGEING LECTURE - REGISTER NOW

 

 

This is the third event in Debating Ageing: A Transdisciplinary Engagement Forum, a series of events at UCD examining the biological, medical, psychological, social and cultural factors that can facilitate positive experiences of old age.

Prof. Dermot Power, Consultant Geriatrician, Mater Hospital, will lead the event with a keynote lecture on the Biology of Ageing. The keynote will be followed by a panel discussion on Healthy Ageing.

The panel of speakers includes:

  • Prof. Dermot Power, Consultant Geriatrician, Mater Hospital
  • Dr Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Consultant General Medicine, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
  • Dr Deirdre O’Donnell, Lecturer in Health Systems, UCD, Co-founder Older People’s Empowerment Network.
  • Assoc. Prof. Clare Corish, Associate Professor in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Malnutrition in the Elderly (ManuEl) Knowledge Hub
  • Dr Caoilean Murphy, UCD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, NUTRIMAL Project


All are welcome to attend this free event - please register on Eventbrite.


Event Details
George Moore Auditorium, O'Brien Centre for Science, UCD.

5.30pm Lecture & Panel Discussion

6.30pm Reception following the event in the Atrium, O'Brien Centre for Science.

 


The Debating Ageing series is co-organised by the UCD Conway Institute, UCD Institute for Discovery, UCD Humanities Institute, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine, and the UCD HRB Ignite Connect Programme - www.ucd.ie/ageing