Research Assistant wins 'Best Poster' at IGS Conference
The 68th IGS Annual Scientific Meeting took place virtually, on Thursday November 18th, 2021. The theme of this year鈥檚 conference was: 鈥�70 Years of Change (1951-2021)鈥�.
The Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation had a strong turnout, presenting several abstracts at the conference. A list of the 6 presentations, which are authored or co-authored by researchers/students from the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation, is outlined below. The abstracts for each of these presentations will be published in a forthcoming issue of 鈥楢ge & Ageing鈥�.
Oral Presentations
- Prof Suzanne Timmons delivered the following platform presentation on the day: 鈥淲hat Does 鈥楢ctive Ageing鈥� Mean to You?鈥� A Five-Country Survey of Academics, Students, Advocacy Groups, And 鈥楨xpert鈥� Older People (Daisy Wiggin, Suzanne Timmons, et al.)
- Dr Emma O鈥� Shea also presented a platform presentation: 鈥楾he Experience of Accessing Parkinson鈥檚 Disease Care: A Qualitative Interview Study鈥� (Emma O鈥� Shea, Aphie Rukundo, Suzanne Timmons, et al.)
Poster Presentations
- Investigating Learning Needs, Outcomes, And Curricula in Healthy and Active Ageing: A Scoping Review and Multinational Survey (Daisy Wiggin, Suzanne Timmons, et al.)
- Older adult Inpatients鈥� perceptions of Progressive Resistance Training in a Specialist Geriatric Rehabilitation Setting (Catriona Burke, Emer O鈥� Neill, Suzanne Timmons, et al.)
- Experiences of Health Service Use for People living with Parkinson鈥檚 Disease: A National Survey (Aphie Rukundo, Emma O鈥� Shea, Suzanne Timmons, et al.)
- To explore Emergency Medicine SpRs understanding, identification and management of frailty within the Emergency Department (Kara McLoughlin, Suzanne Timmons, et al.)
The CGR wish to congratulate Ms Daisy Wiggin, a research assistant in the Centre, for winning 鈥楤est Poster鈥� at the IGS conference. This study was entitled: 鈥業nvestigating Learning Needs, Outcomes, And Curricula in Healthy and Active Ageing: A Scoping Review and Multinational Survey鈥�.