Living Your Best and Longest Life. Age Friendly Ireland and the role of Meath County Council.

About this episode

This episode discusses aging in place and the initiatives by Meath County Council to support older residents in county Meath.

How can we live our best and longest life? It is a question that we all ponder as we age. This episode looks at what is happening in county Meath, and nationally, to help us to ‘age in place’ and as recommended by the World Health Organisation. Catherine McGuigan, Chief Officer, Age Friendly Ireland which is a shared service across the 31 local authorities in Ireland and hosted nationally by Meath County Council, talks about her work and why the voices of older people are so important. We also hear how Meath County Council is providing for older residents and what the council is doing to contribute to, and enable, a decent quality of life for our older people. Also in studio are Valerie McHugh Age Friendly Meath Programme Manager and Brian Hora, Senior Executive Officer, in the Community Dept with Meath County Council. And we hear from Darren Kelly, Branch Manager, Tirlán, Athboy about what it has done to be age friendly, and an older person visits the store and shares her thoughts on it. The Meath County Council Community Department can be contacted by emailing community@meathcoco.ie .

People in this episode

Guests: Catherine McGuigan, Valerie McHugh, Brian Hora, Darren Kelly

Topics covered

• aging
• age friendly initiatives
• community support
• quality of life
• local government
• health and wellness

Keywords

• age friendly
• Meath County Council
• aging in place
• older people
• community support
• health initiatives
• World Health Organisation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Age Friendly Ireland, Meath County Council, World Health Organisation

Places: county Meath, Ireland, Tirlán, Athboy

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