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Published: 27 December 2023
Independent programme of evaluation of the State’s investment in The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) - Main Report
This report utilises a mixed-methods approach comprising both quantitative and qualitative tools to assess the outputs, outcomes and impacts of the TILDA programme. The methods used to collect data involved desk research (including bibliometric analysis), individual and focus group qualitative interviews, an in-depth...
Published: 19 December 2023
Health Research in Action
This year’s Health Research in Action highlights some of the many notable impacts and outcomes of the Health Research Board’s work. It includes a snapshot in numbers of our activity during 2022, followed by 29 success stories from our wide-ranging health and social care research portfolio.
The stories...
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: 19 December 2022
Health Research in Action 2021
This year’s Health Research in Action highlights some of the many notable impacts and outcomes of the Health Research Board’s work during 2021 across health and social care in Ireland, all of which made a real difference to people’s health, the health system, society, and the economy.
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: 20 December 2021
Outputs, outcomes, and emerging impacts: Results from HRB-funded awards that completed in 2018–19
This report presents a snapshot of the outputs, outcomes, and some emerging impacts arising from 170 Health Research Board (HRB) awards (with a combined value of €49.5 million) that completed in 2018 and 2019. Further outputs, outcomes, and impacts can be expected to occur in the years following the completion of these...
Published: 14 December 2021
Health Research in Action 2020
This year’s Health Research in Action highlights some of the many notable impacts and outcomes of the Health Research Board’s work during 2020 across health and social care in Ireland, all of which made a real difference to people’s health, the health system, society, and economy.
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: 10 December 2020
Health Research in Action
Health Research in Action describes the real and wide-ranging impact and success stories of the work produced and supported by the Health Research Board across many sectors of health and social care in Ireland, and how it's improving people’s health, the health system, society, and economy.
...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: 17 December 2019
Outputs, outcomes and emerging impacts
Outputs, outcomes and emerging impacts: Results from HRB awards completed in 2016/2017
This report presents a snapshot of, and provides trend analysis over 10 years for, the outputs, outcomes and some emerging impacts from 187 HRB awards (combined value of €47.2 million) that completed in 2016 and...
Published: 17 December 2019
Health Research in Action
Health Research in Action is a selection of discoveries and new knowledge that has been generated through the work and activity of the Health Research Board.
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: 12 December 2018
Health Research in Action
Health Research in Action is a selection of discoveries and new knowledge that has been generated through the work and activity of the Health Research Board.
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: 28 June 2018
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database 2017
The 2017 database report presents:
- profiles of any physical, sensory, neurological, speech or language disability registered in 2017
- data on specialised health and personal social service use
- an outline of future requirements for services
Infographic, tables and CHO...
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...
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