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News & publications

Press and publications play an important part in achieving the objectives of Age & Opportunity. Apart from our own press releases and publications available from this section, we also cover some issues around representations of older people in the media and have a reading list of books around the area of ageing.

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 The second Go for Life Games were held in the DCU on Saturday 8th June The Go for Life Games is a celebration of physical activity. The teams represented older people’s groups from Carlow, Cork, Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, South County Dublin, Fingal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Meath, South Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow. Read more here

'Well into Older Age - Age & Opportunity and the Evidence' isCover of Well into Older Age report a report from the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUI Galway, examining what research says about the value of promoting participation of older people.

Read the Well into Older Age press release

Download a PDF of Well into Older Age

For more news, follow this link.