Media
2020
Galway Bay FM (Sunday 26 April 2020)
Warning let up in vigilance will bring us 'back to where we started'
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Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh (Sunday 26 April 2020)
Professor Mary McCarron appeared on Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh to discuss the strain our older citizens & people with intellectual disabilities have been experiencing during the current crisis.
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Psychiatry Advisor (Friday 17 April 2020)
Loneliness, Sleep Trouble May Raise Risk for Depression and Anxiety Among Adults With Intellectual Disabilities.
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Medical Independent (Thursday 9 April 2020)
A complex challenge: Disability services respond to Covid-19.
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Medical X Press (Wednesday 25 March 2020)
People with an intellectual disability vulnerable to adverse outcomes of COVID-19 warns Trinity expert.
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The Irish Times (Wednesday 8 January 2020)
Healthy lifestyles can add up to 10 extra years of life, study says.
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The Irish Times (Wednesday 8 January 2020)
'That day, I vowed to try to change things' - Trinity professor says encounter with distressed mother and son drives her work
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2019
AgriLand (Monday 3 June 2019)
‘People in early 30s being diagnosed with dementia’
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Independent (Friday 22 March 2019)
People with Down syndrome 'have very high risk of suffering dementia,' say researchers.
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Irishhealth.com (Thursday 21 March 2019)
‘People in early 30s being diagnosed with dementia’
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Irishhealth.com (Thursday 21 March 2019)
Major research summit on Down syndrome.
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The Irish Times (Thursday 21 March 2019)
Dementia risk associated with Down syndrome.
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2017
Irish Examiner (Tuesday 5th December 2017)
Older people with intellectual disability face 'social isolation'
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University Times (Wednesday 26 July 2017)
Trinity Research Reveals High Risk of Dementia For People With Down Syndrome.
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The Irish Times (Wednesday 26 July 2017)
Dementia ‘highly prevalent’ among women with Down syndrome.
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The Journal (Wednesday 26 July 2017)
In a study of older Irish women with Down Syndrome, almost all had dementia 20 years later.
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The Irish Times (Tuesday 20 June 2017)
Careless talk costs lives – mind your language on ageing.
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Independent (Wednesday 12 April 2017)
People with intellectual disability in limbo as families shun talks on future.
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2016
The Irish Times (Tuesday 12 April 2016)
Medical Matters: No lazy assumptions about patients with intellectual disability.
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Irishhealth.com (Wednesday 9 April 2016)
Polypharmacy common in older people wth ID.
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2015
The Irish Times (Tuesday 19 May 2017)
Down syndrome and dementia: ‘Don’t break the link between the carers and the client’
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2014
The Irish Times (Wednesday 1 October 2014)
Dementia among people with Down syndrome doubles in three years.
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Irishhealth.com (Tuesday 30 September 2014)
Ageing with an intellectual disability.
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Medical X Press (Tuesday 30 September 2014)
Longitudinal report shows challenging reality of ageing with an intellectual disability.
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Independent (Tuesday 30 September 2014)
Poor health for older disabled people.
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