The information team has been getting a number of calls recently on travel insurance, and the high costs faced by many older people, writes Age Action's Senior Information Officer Gerry Scully.
We were recently asked a question by a concerned nursing home resident about rising bill costs - and what she could do about it. Here, Age Action's Senior Information Officer Gerard Scully gives our response to an issue which is becoming all too prevalent across Ireland.
National Volunteering Week 2016 takes place until Sunday, May 22nd, so I’m delighted to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Age Action’s phenomenal volunteers all over Ireland.
Rebecca Scanlon is a student at Trinity College Dublin, where she studies Radiation Therapy. She recently volunteered as part of Age Action's Getting Started Computer Training programme. This is her story.
In his intro piece for the latest Ageing Matters magazine, Age Action CEO Eamon Timmins reflects on the recent General Election campaign and underlines one of the key challenges for the new government: to begin planning for Ireland's ageing population.
In a blog about mandatory retirement age in Ireland, Age Action member and blogger Angela Gallagher writes about her personal experience of the situation. A version of this article originally appeared on Angela's blog, The Silver Voice.
Members of the Galway Glór group and Age Action’s policy team met with Ollie Plunkett, the HSE's National Lead for Outpatient Services, recently to discuss ways of improving older people's experiences in Outpatient Departments in the West. Here, Anne Donnellan of the Age Action Galway Glór Group writes about that meeting.
“Why bother?” That was the rather dismissive response from a friend when I told him about the series of election debates organised by Age Action and Active Retirement Ireland earlier this month writes Eamon Timmins. “Sure the candidates and the parties will tell you whatever you want to hear.”
The upcoming General Election is a golden opportunity for each of us to make a difference. If we fail to grab this chance with both hands the current generation of older people could pay a steep price over the next five years, and everyone – young and old – will certainly pay the price for decades to come.
