Assessment of Older People's Health and Social Care Needs and ...

_r-------------------------­Marion Duffy, Public Health Nurse, works in Roscommon Community Services and has experienceboth in management and in clinical practice. Marion trained as a general nurse at Sligo GeneralHospital and completed her midwifery training at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin. She holds aDiploma in Public Health Nursing from UCD, a BA Nursing (hons) from NUl, Galway and Diplomas inMicrobiology, Child Psychology and Gerontology from the Royal College of Surgeons....f-------------------------­Jimmy Duggan is Principal, Services for Older People in the Department of Health and Children. Assuch he has particular responsibilities for overseeing the implementation of those parts of the healthstrategy relating to older people. He was recently a member of the Irish official delegation at theUnited Nations World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid._f-------------------------Dr. Chris Dunstan has been a General Practitioner since 1978. He is a member of the Department ofHealth Older People's Task Force in the UK and Co-Chair of the National Assessment Working Group.He is also Chair of the West Surrey Electronic Record Development Project, part of the nationalelectronic record development work, which has a health and social care record for older people asone focus of its work. He is a former member of the External Reference Group of the NSF for OlderPeople. Dr Dunstan has worked on local strategies for mental health services for older people. Hewas a member of the project group which developed the whole system audit methodology to alloweffective audit of his local health and social care system, and its refinement for roll out to otherhealth/social care systems.-------------------------------Antoinette Doocey MBA, BA Health Services Management, HDip, PHN, RM, RGN, has a nursingbackground and has acquired a wide range of experience in a number of clinical and service settings,including acute, continuing care, hospice and community.She was a member of the Commission on Nursing and is currently a member of both the NationalCouncil for the Professional Development of Nursing and MidWifery and of An Bord Altranais. She hasworked as a senior executive officer in the community services programme of the North EasternHealth Board. Antoinette has held the post of Director of Governance, Planning and Evaluation ­Service for Older People in the NEHB for the last two years, during which she led and managed thedevelopment of a five-year strategy of services for older people, 'Healthy Ageing - A Secure Future'.She has recently been seconded to the Department of Health and Children as a member of thePrimary Care Task Force with the remit of implementing the new primary care strategy, 'Primary Care- A New Direction'.Assessment of Older People's Health and Social Care Needs and Preferences