IGS Podcast

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Des O’Neill, Dr. Gemma Carney and Dr. Neasa Fitzpatrick about Cultural Gerontology. Professor O’Neill is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at Tallaght University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Carney is a lecturer in social policy and ageing in Queen’s University Belfast. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a specialist registrar in geriatric medicine a...

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Sean Kennelly and Breda Comiskey. Professor Kennelly is a ConsultantPhysician in Geriatric & Stroke Medicine in Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) and leader in dementia care and memory services in Ireland. Breda is living with Alzheimher’s Disease and a strong advocate for supports and services forpeople living with this condition. Sean and Breda both...

Categories: 🟢 Mobility | 🔵 What Matters | ⚙️ Systems In this episode, Edel talks to Louise Brent and Pamela Hickey about the Major Trauma Audit and the recent report specifically looking at major trauma in older adults. Louise is the Head of Audit Management at the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) and Pamela is the Audit Programme Manager, Trauma and Surgery at the National Office of Cli...

In this special episode, we celebrate the awarding of this year’s IGS Presidential Medal to Professor Rose Galvin, Professor of Physiotherapy and Co-Director of the Ageing Research Centre at the University of Limerick. Professor Galvin joins Edel to reflect on her journey from clinical practice to research leadership, her interest in applied health research in ageing and the impact of her research...

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Simon Conroy and Dr. James van Oppen about Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM). They discuss their respective career paths to the specialty, changes and opportunities in the area, frailty screening, patient reported outcome measures and much more. To learn more about this topic, don’t miss the Geriatric Emergency Medicine session at this year’s IGS Annual Sc...

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Cathal McCrory, Dr. Ann Monaghan and Mary O’Shea from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Each guest discuss their journey to TILDA and the day-to-day aspects of their role. Throughout the discussion the group highlight some of the interesting findings from the dataset and it’s real world impact. They discuss the international landscape of longi...

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor Ken Rockwood. Professor Rockwood is a geriatrician, a professor of geriatric medicine at Dalhousie University and leads the Frailty and Eldercare Network fo Nova Scotia Health. As an international leader on frailty, he has more than 600 peer-reviewed publications and nine books to his credit. They discuss his career, understanding frailty, frailty assessmen...

In this episode, Edel talks to Seán Moynihan and Dr. Sarah Donnelly about a range of topics including ageing in place, loneliness, ageism and the work of ALONE. Sean is the CEO of ALONE ( www.alone.ie ) , a national organisation that enables older people to age at home. Dr Sarah Donnelly, previously worked as medical social worker and is now an Associate Professor in Social Work and Director of Gr...

In this episode, Edel talks to Dr. Andrea Wershof Schwartz and Dr. Kirstyn James about Age Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms – Mobility, Mentation, Medication and What Matters. Dr. Schwartz is a geriatrician at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Boston and Associate Director for Clinical Innovation in the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center. Dr. Schwartz is an Associate Pr...

In this episode, Edel talks to Dr. Diarmuid O’Shea. Dr. O’Shea is a consultant Geriatrician in St. Vincent’s Hospital, previous President of the Irish Gerontological Society and the current President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). They discuss what drew Dr. O’ Shea’s to geriatric medicine, his career to date, the evolution of the specialty of geriatric medicine and his advic...

In this episode, Edel talks to Professor John Cooke about gerontological simulation. Professor Cooke is a consultant geriatrician in the University Hospital Waterford, National Doctors Training and Planning (NDTP) and South/South West Hospital Group Clinical Director for Education and Training as well as Clinical Professor in University College Cork and Clinical Associate Professor in the Royal Co...

In this episode, Edel talks to the Irish Gerontological Society (IGS)  President Dr. Emer Ahern. Emer is a Consultant Trauma and Orthogeriatrician in Cork University hospital and was appointed National Clinical Advisor Group Lead (NCAGL) for Older Persons in May 2022. They discuss Emer's career and journey to the specialty of geriatric medicine, her experience with the IGS and NCAGL roles, urgent...

In this episode, Edel talks to fellow physiotherapist Dr. Esther Clift, who is a Consultant Practitioner in Frailty in the NHS. They discuss Esther's career, advanced practice for HSCPs (AHPs), the consultant practitioner role and virtual wards.   They mention documents and resources including: - “Multi-professional consultant-level practice capability and impact framework” Health Education Englan...

In this episode, Edel talks to Louise Brent. Louise is the Irish Hip Fracture Database and Major Trauma Audit Manager with the National Office of Clinical Audit.  This episode has been released on the same day as the publication of the 10th Hip Fracture Report from the Irish Hip Fracture Database (IHFD). They discuss the journey of the Irish Hip Fracture Database over the last decade, the standard...

In this episode, Edel talks to British Geriatrics Society (BGS) President Professor Adam Gordon. They discuss Adam's career and journey to the specialty of geriatric medicine, his experience with the BGS, intermediate care and social care, the future of care homes and lots more. They mention documents and resources including: - "Intermediate care framework for rehabilitation, reablement and recove...

In this episode, Edel talks to Dr. Rosa McNamara. Rosa is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in St. Vincent’s University Hospital and Chair of the Geriatric Emergency Medicine special interest group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. They discuss what drew Rosa to working with older people, the ideal ED, current pathways and services in GEM, educational resources and opportunit...

In this episode, Edel talks to Dr. Colm Henry, Consultant Geriatrician and Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE. Dr. Henry will be awarded the IGS Presidential Medal at this year's Annual Scientific Meeting on September 28th to 30th (details on www.irishgerontology.com). Dr. Henry discusses what drew him to geriatric medicine, his journey to leadership, the COVID19 pandemic and the ageing population...

In this episode, Edel talks to Deirdre Lang, the Nursing Rep on the IGS Executive Committee and the Director of Nursing/National Lead for Older Persons Services in Ireland. They discuss Deirdre's career, what drew her to gerontology, ageing well, Get Up Get Dressed Ger Moving, the National Frailty Education Programme and Deirdre's advice for leading and implementing change. Deirdre discusses the r...

To mark World Delirium Awareness Day, Edel talks to Dr. Niamh O'Regan, ANP Marie Doyle and Dr. Emily Buckley from University Hospital Waterford. They discuss what is delirium, plans for world delirium awareness day, detecting managing and preventing delirium and lots of useful educational resources. The hashtag for World Delirium Day is #WDAD2023 and follow iDelirium_Aware on the day.  Feedback, q...

In the run up to the IGS Annual Scientific Meeting 2022, Edel talks to Íde O'Shaughnessy. Íde talks about her role on the IGS committee, the HSCP event at the ASM and her research interests including the findings from her recent publication "Effectiveness of acute geriatric unit care on functional decline, clinical and process outcomes among hospitalised older adults with acute medical complaints:...

In the run up to the IGS Annual Scientific Meeting, Edel talks to Dr. Liz Moloney about the ED Geriatric Medicine Special Interest Group, what to expect from the group's session at the ASM and some helpful learning resources for MDTs working in GEM.  Follow the hashtag #IGS2022 on Twitter to keep up with the event on Nov 3rd and 4th.  Links to resources Liz mentions in the episode: The Case. Repor...

In the run up to the IGS Annual Scientific Meeting, Edel talks to one of the ASM keynote speakers, Professor Priscilla Harries about her career, interests and what we can expect from her presentation. Follow the hashtag #IGS2022 to keep up with the ASM on Twitter as it happens.  More information on the conference- www.irishgerontology.com  Podcast related queries - askigspodcast@gmail.com 

To mark World Alzheimer’s Day, in this episode, Edel McDaid (IGS HSCP Rep) talks to Kate Brennan, Fiona Foley and Mairead Bracken-Scally from the National Dementia Office. Feedback, questions and comments always welcome via askigspodcast@gmail.com Links to resources discussed in the podcast: Dementia: Understand Together https://www.understandtogether.ie/ Dementia Pathways website:  https://dement...

In this episode, Edel McDaid (IGS HSCP Rep) talks to Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Professor Medical Gerontology Trinity College and St James Hospital, Director MISA, founding PI TILDA Irish longitudinal study on Ageing and of course the President of the IGS. Rose Anne discusses her passion for gerontology, research on ageing and her recent book "Age Proof".  Feedback, questions and comments always w...

In this episode, Edel talks to Damian McGrath, James O' Hagan & Aoife Dillon about ageing as a member of the LGBT+ community and the importance of providing inclusive healthcare for older people in Ireland.  Information about the services & resources available from LGBT Ireland including the Champions training programme run by James (that Aoife & Damian have both done!) is available at...