Mar 19, 2015:

Promoting Health in Older Age

Mai Quaid, National President & Sue Shaw, National Development Officer represented Active Retirement Ireland at a seminar on promoting Health in Older Age last Friday (13^th March). The event, organised by Active Retirement Ireland, Age & Opportunity and the EU Parliament office in Dublin provided an excellent opportunity to consider and discuss what health and wellbeing mean in older age and what the European initiatives in this area are. It also launched an initiative by Active Retirement Ireland and Age & Opportunity (with the support of the EU Parliament) to establish reference groups of older people in each constituency to work with MEPs to update and inform them of the key issues effecting older people.

It is hoped that MEPs can use this information to influence policy formation at EU level. It is also hoped that the information provided by these reference groups can inform the work of the relevant Task forces and Working groups within the EU Parliament & EU Commission.

The event was a follow on from the successful project Active Senior Citizens for Europe, which aimed to to bring the EU closer to senior citizens in 8 EU countries and support older people to build working relationships with Irish MEPs and their older constituents. The project sought to equip groups of older people with the necessary tools and training to share and circulate relevant information about the EU to wider groups of seniors at local regional and national level.

Nessa Childers, Independent MEP, and Lynn Boylan, Sinn Féin MEP, spoke at the event as well as Sue Shaw from ARI. The event was well attended by Active Retirement Ireland members from a range of ARAs across the Eastern North and South regions.




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