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| Work starts on Ireland's first dedicated centre for ageing  Minister Kathleen Lynch attended the sod-turning of Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), Ireland's first dedicated centre for successful ageing in St James's Hospital. Responding to the need for innovation in the delivery of services to Ireland's growing ageing population, MISA is the realisation of a vision to deliver a holistic approach to successful ageing with prevention, clinical care, research and teaching housed in one central facility.MISA will be one of the leading European centres for ageing. For the first time in Ireland all age related clinical, research, technological, creative and educational facilities will be housed on a single site in a new dedicated facility which will make patients experience user friendly and streamlined. The centre for ageing in Ireland will include innovative early diagnostic and rapid access ambulatory care clinics along with in-patient acute assessment centres and rehabilitation and continuing care units. There will be a strong emphasis on research and innovation and technology companies will be afforded access to clinical cohorts in order to develop and advance life-changing technologies that promote successful ageing in concert with clinicians and patients. The new establishment will be fully integrated with the surrounding community allowing models of health and social care to be developed and tested in collaboration with primary care. The MISA development will cost €48 million and has been made possible with funding from HSE, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Department of Health, and St James's Hospital in conjunction with Trinity College Dublin. During the construction process 60 jobs will be created, this will increase to 300 construction jobs towards the end of the development. The new facility complies with Dublin City Council plans to encourage development of appropriate new high-quality buildings in Dublin's south inner city and has been part of St James's Hospital building master-plan for almost a decade. The new 7-storey state of the art building is likely to be completed in early 2016 when MISA hope to begin treating patients at the new high-tech facility. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Construction News :: home page |