Services & Support Systems

Services and support systems across health, social and educational domains are vital for enabling equity across the life course. This theme examines gaps in services, identifying innovative means to address inefficiencies and ineffectiveness in order to secure enhanced outcomes across people’s lives. Work in this area engages with service development and reform, service use and assessment, and barriers to access. Embracing holistic and multidisciplinary ideas of evaluation, consideration is given to how both micro and macro level forces influence system effectiveness. ILAS partners work in conjunction with multi-agency and multi-sector stakeholders to inform, and lead the development of research-informed interventions to achieve greater impacts for individuals and groups.

Important work streams in the theme of services and support systems includes:

Critical Gaps in Provision
System Efficiencies and Cost Effectiveness
Intervention Development and Evaluation
Person-Centeredness and Value-Based Models

ILAS

The Institute aims to advance people’s lives in Ireland and internationally who face issues with older life, living with disability, children, youth and parents who are vulnerable in social and other contexts. The research at the Institute is underpinned by academic staff and researchers who are keen the work we do makes a difference.

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