Rose Anne Kenny

Just one in 10 older people rely on public transport to get around, research on Ireland’s ageing population has found. The study found a third of fre(...)

GPs should be more invested in supporting people continue an active sex life in older age, according to recent research by Trinity College Dublin. Des(...)

Ireland’s older adults are bankrolling their children, providing care for their grandchildren but leaving their own health challenges untreated or und(...)

Bing Crosby once crooned that love is wasted on the young. Ireland’s middle-aged and late middle-aged agree, since they are having plenty of sex and f(...)

There is a condition that is twice as deadly as obesity and more dangerous than smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It is a sneaky, capricious beast that can(...)

How long do you want to live? How do you want to live those years? And which is more important, a long life or a healthy life? Or could we possibly en(...)

It was an unusual sight – a lecture theatre in Trinity College Dublin brimful of silver-haired men and women in their 60s, 70s and 80s. But, perhaps,(...)

It’s official. You’ re only as old as you feel. Research from Trinity College Dublin’s longitudinal study on ageing (Tilda) has found that negative (...)

Dementia is a confusing condition, not only for those who have it but for the friends and family of those diagnosed with it. People with dementia c(...)

Once shunned by the political establishment, UCD economist Prof Morgan Kelly was today accepted into the bosom of academia.The manwho called the prop(...)