A roundtable group of Irish and international experts has called for equal access to home care for everyone, claiming the pandemic highlighted the safety of home care in comparison to institutional settings. A report compiled by the Global Coalition on Aging urged the Government to act to create statutory home-care schemes, instead of relying on nursing homes.

Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) hosts expert roundtable to bring together Irish and global experts in health, economics, policy making and advocacy to examine and chart the path for home care as a high-quality, accessible, and safe option for care in Ireland; Roundtable report, ‘The Safest Place to Age: Mapping the Path to Statutory Home…

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For many years, I have been doing research into what it takes to prepare for a successful retirement. Through this work, I have learned that the concept of retirement means different things to different people. The traditional view where you stop working from one day to the next is becoming as outdated as the concept of a job for life, upon which the idea was built.