Browsing by Author "Ward, Mark"
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Altered lives in a time of crisis: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of older adults in Ireland. Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Ward, Mark (TILDA, 2021)The ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 infection and disease, is threatening healthcare systems globally as well as in Ireland. (1) The COVID-19 pandemic, and public health-associated ... -
Cardiovascular signal entropy predicts all-cause mortality: evidence from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Romero-Ortuno, Roman; Knight, Silvin; Ward, Mark; Newman, Louise; Kenny, Rose (2022)In this study, the relationship between cardiovascular signal entropy and the risk of seven-year all-cause mortality was explored in a large sample of community-dwelling older adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on ... -
Circulating tumour cells: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Ward, Mark; O'Toole, Sharon; O'Leary, John; Malone, Victoria; O'Connor, R?is?n (2023)This review is an overview of the current knowledge regarding circulating tumour cells (CTCs), which are potentially the most lethal type of cancer cell, and may be a key component of the metastatic cascade. The clinical ... -
Civic Engagement: results from the HaPAI survey
Gibney, S; Ward, Mark; Moran, N; Moore, T; Shannon, S (2018) -
CoderDojo and libraries : why your library should get involved and how to start your own
Ward, Mark (Library Association of IrelandIE, 2016-10-01) -
Creative activity in the ageing population: Findings from Wave 6 of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Hennelly, Niamh; Ward, Mark; Scarlett, Siobhan; Hever, Ann; O'Connnor, Deirdre; McGarrigle, Christine; Kenny, Rose Anne (TILDA, 2023) -
Evaluation of a 3-Item Health Index in Predicting Mortality Risk: A 12-Year Follow-Up Study
Romero-Ortuno, Roman; Kenny, Rose; Ward, Mark; Knight, Silvin (2023)This study was carried out using a large cohort (N = 4265; 416 deceased) of older, community-dwelling adults from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). The study compared the performance of a new 3-item health ... -
Exploring the predictors of socio-economic variation in child overweight and obesity in Ireland : a sociological analysis
Ward, Mark (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This thesis addressed the issue of childhood overweight and obesity in Ireland. In the first instance the socially structured distribution of overweight and obesity was established with the mechanisms by which this occurs ... -
In their own words: The voices of Older Irish people in the COVID-19 pandemic
Costello, Niall; Ward, Mark; O'Mahoney, Paul; Kenny, Rose Anne (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, 2021)Since COVID-19 was declared an international pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020 (HSE, 2021), older people have carried the greatest burden of serious infection and death from the virus. ... -
Increased extracellular vesicles mediate inflammatory signalling in cystic fibrosis.
Doyle, Sarah; Ward, Mark; Brennan, Kiva (2020)Rationale Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene form the basis of cystic fibrosis (CF). There remains an important knowledge gap in CF as to how diminished CFTR activity leads to the dominant ... -
The Invisible Librarian : A Librarian’s Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact [book review]
Ward, Mark (Library Association of IrelandIE, 2016-10-01) -
Loneliness and social isolation in the COVID-19 pandemic among the over 70s. Data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Ward, Mark; McGarrigle, Christine; Hever, Ann; O’Mahoney, Paul; Moynihan, Seán; Loughran, Gráinne; Kenny, Rose Anne (TILDA, 2020)This joint report from TILDA and ALONE examines the issues of loneliness and social isolation with specific reference to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. Measures introduced to curtail the spread of COVID-19, including ... -
Loneliness, social isolation, and their discordance among older adults
Ward, Mark; Kenny, Rose; Layte, Richard (TILDA, 2019)We have shown here that loneliness and social isolation are not a necessary fact of the ageing process and recent efforts to alleviate these potentially damaging phenomena should be encouraged. This is particularly important ... -
Older adults shielding at home
Ward, Mark; Kenny, Rose Anne (TILDA, 2020)Two thirds of adults aged 60 and older agreed or strongly agreed with shielding. Interestingly, a higher percentage of those most affected by policy, the over 70s, agreed with it. Whether people lived alone or with others ... -
Older adults' experience of ageism during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ward, Mark (TILDA, 2020)Despite the fact that the vast majority of older adults are not physically, cognitively or mentally impaired, age-related stereotypes persist. These stereotypes commonly portray older adults as physically and cognitively ... -
Perceived stress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ward, Mark (2020)Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, perceived stress has increased significantly among older adults. This increase will likely negatively affect both physical and psychological wellbeing among this population. ... -
Physical and Mental Health of Older People while Cocooning during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Romero-Ortuno, Roman; Ward, Mark; Cunningham, Conal; Kenny, Rose; Robinson, David; Mc Carroll, Kevin; Briggs, Robert (2021)Background: Cocooning or shielding, i.e. staying at home and reducing face-to-face interaction with other people, was an important part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic for older people. However, concerns exist ... -
Positive ageing indicators 2018
Gibney, Sar; Zhang, Mengyang; Ward, Mark; McGlinchey, Eimear; Taafe, Carol; Maguire, Teresa; Carroll, Brídín; Shannon, Sinead; Brennan, Cathal; O'Callaghan, David (Department of HealthIE, 2019-06-04) -
Preparing for COVID-19 vaccination: important learnings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
Ward, Mark; Bourke, Nollaig (TILDA, 2020)This report brings together important information on vaccinations among adults aged 60 years and older learned from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), which can inform the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations. The ... -
Study protocol for TILDA COVID-19 survey. Altered lives in a time of crisis: preparing for recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of older adults
Ward, Mark; Clarke, Niamh; Wang, Minjuan; McGarrigle, Christine A; De Looze, Céline; O’Halloran, Aisling M; Kenny, Rose Anne (2021)Background: Older adults are the most at-risk of contracting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and among the most affected by measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus. While the ...