Description:

In partnership with Dr. Cliona Ni Cheallaigh and St. James’s Hospital Inclusion Health services, preliminary data demonstrating premature onset of chronic age-associated conditions such as multimorbidity, frailty, COPD and dementia in homeless people in Depaul services.

We are now undertaking an extension of the internationally renowned Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to homeless people in partnership with Dr. Ni Cheallaigh.

The proposed study will characterise physical and cognitive frailty in homeless people, measure the prevalence and incidence of functional impairment and care needs, and inform the development of integrated health and social care to meet the needs of homeless people in Dublin .Finally, homelessness provides a clear human model of health inequities and premature ageing associated with psychological and socioeconomic stress throughout the life course. Understanding the premature ageing seen in homelessness will give us insight into the pathways, processes and mechanisms via which social exclusion gets “under the skin” to precipitate earlier ageing and will inform policies to deliver improved health equity

Dates:  2019

Organisers:  DEPAUL & St. James’s Hospital Inclusion Health services

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