The Christmas Party Tea Dance in the Evergreen Club was another fantastic community event which had the older members rocking Terenure in some numbers. Over a hundred people turned up, it was a great celebration and chance for the over 50’s to mingle and meet...
Applewood Homecare are delighted to announce our donation of a 12 month integrated care package to The Peggy Mangan Foundation. We are now inviting applications for this integrated care package and there is more information below. ...
Actor Seth Rogen addressed a US Senate committee this week to speak about Alzheimer's Disease. His heartwarming, humorous and honest testimony about his mother- in- laws experience with early onset Alzheimer's Disease and his own charity and advocacy work in raising awareness and breaking the stigma that...
Terenure 2030 is a is a volunteer run community project whose vision is to enjoy and promote Terenure. As a local business Applewood Homecare is delighted to be involved in this exciting and innovative project and especially excited about our involvement in the access and social...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usld8sIWCR4 The goal of NEIL (Neuro-Enhancement for Independent Lives) at Trinity's Institute of Neuroscience is to: Enable independent living and improve quality of life by: conducting research aimed at dementia prevention and cognitive enhancement; transforming this knowledge into empirically grounded interventions; using this knowledge to educate and empower older adults to maintain...
Local Terenure resident, Peggy Mangan, left her home on September 24th to walk her dog Casper and tragically never came home. A city wide search took place with over 150 volunteers joining the search party and there were numerous sightings of Peggy Mangan across the...
Applewood Homecare are delighted to announce that we now offering integrated homecare solutions through the addition of Sensormind to the services we provide. Sensormind is the most innovative, cost-effective, wireless telecare product available to the Irish market. Sensormind supports independent living in the home and compliments homecare...
The Irish Citizens Senior Parliament are holding a protest rally outside the Dail this afternoon against cuts made in last weeks budget. Today's demonstration is to protest against several measures in last weeks budget which directly affect the elder members of our population. There is a...
We are delighted to announce that we are bringing our free Community Information Clinics to a second venue! From October 2013, Applewood Community Information Clinics will take place monthly in the Ballyroan Community Centre. About The Applewood Community Information Clinics The idea of the Community Information Clinics came...
With projections of rising prevalence, dementia has been described as one of the most urgent public health issues of the 21st Century. ( Sloane et al 2002) Currently there are 41,700 people in Ireland living with a form of dementia. It is estimated that this figure...