How is Agewise organised?

Staff

AgeWise is managed by the Head of Education and Training Programmes.

Partners

AgeWise is a stand-alone programme which does not generally need collaboration with a local partner in order to deliver the programme. However, Age & Opportunity is open to working in partnership with larger organisations to tailor a series of AgeWise workshops which meet their particular requirements.

Funding  

AgeWise is supported by our core funding provided by the HSE. Funding is used to staff the programme and to, in part, pay the Facilitators to deliver the workshops. The balance is made up through a charge for the workshops. Contact Fiona Holohan for more details on the charges involved.

History

Since 1998, Age & Opportunity have offered age awareness training on request to a range of statutory and voluntary bodies. In 2002, the Equality Authority published a report entitled ‘Implementing Equality for Older People’, making the following recommendation: "Policy makers need to ensure that relevant staff engage in age awareness training to assist policy making that takes account of the experience, situation and identity of older people". This recommendation was endorsed by the NESF in its report of September 2003 entitled ‘Equality Policies for Older People: Implementation Issues’ which stated that awareness training should ‘be implemented as soon as possible’. From here, AgeWise as it exists now, was born.