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COVID 19 Response Care Box Initiative

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Communication and Information, Community Support and Health Services
Programme: Kilkenny
Status: Completed
Care boxes and Overnight hospital bags were delivered to vulnerable persons across the five Counties in May and June 2020.

COVID CARE CONCERTS

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Community Support and Health Services
Programme: National
Status: Ongoing
Covid Care Concerts is a nationwide arts programme, developed in rapid response to the pandemic. The project is devised and delivered by the Mobile Music Machine. The project has brought the best of Irish musical talent to the gardens of care homes and hospitals across Ireland, for live, socially distanced concerts. The Healthy Ireland fund is supporting 250 concerts in Kerry, Kilkenny, Dublin City, Dublin DLR and Wexford.
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Creating an inclusive workplace where Wisdom workers can thrive

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Civic Participation and Employment
Programme: Dublin City
Status: In Progress
A HBR recent article showed that only 8% of organizations include age as part of their DEI strategy. https://hbr.org/2022/03/harnessing-the-power-of-age-diversity. In a 2022 study by LiveCareer, Older People & the …
Age Friendly Kildare

Creativity in Older Age 2021

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Social Participation
Programme: Kildare
Status: In Progress
This project proposal centres on supporting positive ageing groups in communities in Kildare to explore, discuss and question artworks from the Kildare County Council Municipal Art Collection, through gentle, but structured conversation.
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Cycling Without Age: age-friendly, inclusive trishaws offer free spins to less able people

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Community Support and Health Services, Respect and Social Inclusion, Social Participation
Programme: Dún Laoghaire Rathdown
Status: Ongoing
Cycling Without Age is a sustainable, award-winning, voluntary, age-friendly initiative, using specially designed trishaw bicycles to take people unable to cycle or walk for free, slow-cycling spins, piloted by …
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Day Care Centre’s Virtual Christmas Concert

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Social Participation
Programme: Roscommon
Status: Completed
Support offered to HSE Day Care Centre to facilitate a virtual Annual Christmas Concert.
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Daycare@Home, a mixture of an Integrated virtual/in-person model with direct support services.

Age Friendly Ireland

WHO Theme: Communication and Information, Community Support and Health Services, Respect and Social Inclusion, Social Participation
Programme: Louth
Status: Ongoing
Introduction Drogheda Community Services (DCS)has been providing social services in Drogheda since 1970 , with the objective of identifying social needs and attempting to tackle them. Covid greatly increased …