Ageing Health & Wellbeing in Intellectual Disability
12 monthsProgramme duration
22,290 EURTuition Fee/year
30 Jun, 2025Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This interdisciplinary course will develop and strengthen the skills, competencies, and knowledge of students, thus enabling them to promote and develop excellence in the delivery of care for people with an intellectual disability. Students will explore the physical health, policy, and complex care needs of people with intellectual disabilities. The course will prepare them as leaders in quality and person-centred care for people with intellectual disabilities as they age. The Trinity Centre for and Intellectual Disability, based at Trinity College Dublin, hosts IDS-TILDA, the world leading longitudinal research initiative focused on ageing and intellectual disability, the most complete multidisciplinary body of research in this field, directly informing policy and practice to enhance the lives of older people with intellectual disability.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This interdisciplinary course will develop and strengthen the skills, competencies, and knowledge of students, thus enabling them to promote and develop excellence in the delivery of care for people with an intellectual disability. Students will explore the physical health, policy, and complex care needs of people with intellectual disabilities. The course will prepare them as leaders in quality and person-centred care for people with intellectual disabilities as they age. The Trinity Centre for and Intellectual Disability, based at Trinity College Dublin, hosts IDS-TILDA, the world leading longitudinal research initiative focused on ageing and intellectual disability, the most complete multidisciplinary body of research in this field, directly informing policy and practice to enhance the lives of older people with intellectual disability.
Admission Requirements
3.3+
75+
100+
7+
130+
Applicants must hold an upper second-class (2.1) degree, ideally in a science or medical-related discipline. In exceptional circumstances, applicants may be able to satisfy the selection committee that they have the academic ability to successfully complete the programme despite having achieved a lower or unrelated qualification.
Candidates should be registered with their relevant professions’ regulatory body, where applicable.
All applicants whose first language is not English or who have not been educated through the English language must meet Trinity’s English language requirements. Find out more: https://www.tcd.ie/study/apply/admission-requirements/postgraduate/
Students will be required to undergo Garda Vetting, you can learn more at: www.tcd.ie/students/orientation/undergraduates/garda-vetting.php
Candidates should be registered with their relevant professions’ regulatory body, where applicable.
All applicants whose first language is not English or who have not been educated through the English language must meet Trinity’s English language requirements. Find out more: https://www.tcd.ie/study/apply/admission-requirements/postgraduate/
Students will be required to undergo Garda Vetting, you can learn more at: www.tcd.ie/students/orientation/undergraduates/garda-vetting.php
30 Jun 2025
1 Year
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
11,150 EUR
International
22,290 EUR
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