Författare: Amanda Phelan

Amanda Phelan is an Associate Professor in the University College Dublin School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, and also holds several positions in the School, namely, Associate Dean for Global Engagement, Subject Head of Older Persons’ Nursing and Co-Director of the National Centre for the Protection of Older People. She is programme director for the Gerontological programmes in the School and her research interests and peer-reviewed publications are in the areas of safeguarding adults, public health, discourse analysis, expertise in gerontological nursing and missed care in nursing. Amanda serves on the National Advisory Committee in Sage (Advocacy and Support for Older People), an international research advisor for the National Initiative for Care of the Elderly (University of Toronto) since 2013 and elder abuse research in Norway funded by the Norwegian Research Council. In 2017, She was appointed to the Expert Advisory Group of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly for the module on ‘How we best respond to the challenges and opportunities of an ageing population’.