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Published: 11 July 2023
Overview of people engaging with disability services in Ireland, 2022
Bulletin from the National Ability Supports System (NASS) on data provided by disability service providers for people engaging with services through the HSE disability budget in 2022.
Published: 01 March 2022
Predictors of access to healthcare professionals for people with intellectual disability in Ireland
The Irish National Intellectual Disability Database is updated annually and in 2017 contained records for nearly 22,000 persons aged 15 years and over. Information was extracted on the contacts each person had with one of eight health professionals in the years 2007, 2012 and 2017. Over these years, there was an increase in...
Published: 01 July 2021
People with intellectual disability in Ireland are still dying young
People with intellectual disability die younger than their non-disabled peers. In recent years, greater attention has been paid to closing the gap. However, evidence that this is being achieved is limited by the dearth of longitudinal, national data.
Published: 02 June 2021
NASS annual report 2020 - disability service use and need
This report provides:
- A profile of the 36,649 people with a disability reviewed on NASS in 2020;
- Details of the HSE disability-funded services currently availed of, and those required now or within the next five years.
Supplementary reports on service users with an intellectual...
Published: 13 May 2021
Family carers of people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland: Changes over 10 years
Data were obtained on nearly 20,000 Irish children and adults living in various family care arrangements in 2007, 2012, and 2017. Over 10 years, the percentage increase in adult persons living with family carers was three times higher than the rise in the general population, with people aged 50 years and over having the...
Published: 29 September 2020
NASS bulletin 2019 – disability service use and need
This bulletin, along with the two supplementary bulletins, presents the inaugural findings of data from the National Ability Supports System (NASS). It provides a profile of the 22,434 people with a disability registered on the system in 2019 as well as details of the disability-funded services currently availed of...
Published: 01 June 2019
The prevalence of intellectual disability: A comparison of national census and register records
International prevalence rates for intellectual disability vary widely with estimates often based on samples. In Ireland people with an intellectual disability are identified in the national census. Moreover, a national register of people receiving or requiring intellectual disability services is maintained and updated...
Published: 18 December 2018
Health Research in Ireland - A study of activity from 2011 to 2015 using the Health Research Classification System
This study examines funding awards based on the type of research conducted and the disease area of interest. It uses the United Kingdom (UK) Health Research Classification System (HRCS).
Seven national funding agencies that manage research programmes provided data for this analysis. These were, Enterprise Ireland...
Published: 15 October 2018
Quality of life outcomes and costs associated with moving from congregated settings to community living arrangements for people with intellectual disability. An evidence review
The purpose of this review is to systematically evaluate the evidence on quality of life outcomes and costs associated with a move from a congregated setting to a community living arrangement for people with intellectual disability. The right to live independently in a place of one’s own choosing is a core value of the...
Published: 29 June 2018
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2017
The 2017 report provides:
- a profile of people with an intellectual disability registered on the database in 2017,
- details of the specialised health and personal social services provided; and
- an outline of the future requirement for those services.
Infographic, tables...
Published: 09 February 2018
Irish persons with intellectual disability moving from family care to residential accommodation in a period of austerity
Ireland has a growing population of adult persons living with family carers, thereby increasing the demand for residential places. Simultaneously, government policy aimed to reprovision residents living in congregated settings but at a time when funding was curtailed due to the economic crisis. This study examines the...
Published: 20 June 2017
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2016
The 2016 report provides:
- a profile of people with an intellectual disability registered on the database in 2016,
- details of the specialised health and personal social services provided; and
- an outline of the future requirement for those services.
Infographics (.jpeg image...
Published: 29 March 2017
Bibliometric analysis of research publication output supported by the Health Research Board (2013 - 2016)
This report presents the results of a bibliometric study of peer reviewed publications fully or partially funded by the Health Research Board (HRB). The bibliometric analysis for this study was commissioned from CWTS Leiden, a world-leader in this area.
The results of that analysis were compared, where possible, to a...
Published: 28 September 2016
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2015
The 2015 report provides:
- a profile of people with an intellectual disability registered on the database in 2015.
- details of the specialised health and personal social services provided; and
- an outline of the future need for those services.
Published: 30 November 2015
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2014
This report is a summary of the main findings of the sixteenth Annual Report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee. It presents data for 2014 on the demographic profile of those who are registered on the National Intellectual Disability Database (NIDD), their current usage of day and residential...
Published: 01 October 2014
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2013
This report is a summary of the main findings of the sixteenth Annual Report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee. It presents data for 2013 on the demographic profile of those who are registered on the National Intellectual Disability Database (NIDD), their current usage of day and residential...
Published: 04 March 2014
Bibliometric analysis of HRB-supported publications 2000-12
This report was commissioned by the Health Research Board (HRB) which contracted Thomson Reuters (Evidence) to conduct a bibliometric analysis of HRB-supported publications between 2000 and 2012.
HRB-supported publications were matched to the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge and supplemented...
Published: 07 November 2013
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2012
This report presents data for 2012 on the demographic profile of those who are registered on the National Intellectual Disability Database, their current usage of day and residential services, and a range of multidisciplinary supports. It also presents information on the needs of people with intellectual disability for such...
Published: 15 October 2012
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2011
This report presents data for 2011 on the demographic profile of those who are registered on the National Intellectual Disability Database, their current usage of day and residential services, and a range of multidisciplinary supports. It also presents information on the needs of people with intellectual disability for such...
Published: 09 November 2011
Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2010
This report presents data for 2010 on the demographic profile of those who are registered on the National Intellectual Disability Database, their current usage of day and residential services, and a range of multidisciplinary supports. It also presents information on the needs of people with intellectual disability for such...
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