This public lecture will address issues such as Advance Healthcare Directives, Deprivation of Liberty (Place of Care), decision-making arrangements under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) legislation and the role and obligations of those interacting with persons who may be at risk.
Thursday 20th February from 15.00 to 16.00
*The lecture will be streamed live via the link below, there is no requirement to register. Following the lecture a recording will be able available to view on our website*
The guest speaker is Patricia Rickard-Clarke
Patricia Rickard-Clarke is Chair of Safeguarding Ireland and a Trustee member of the Board of SAGE Advocacy. A former Commissioner of the LawReform Commission. She was the lead Commissioner in relation to the Commission’s work on: Vulnerable Adults and the Law: Capacity, Bioethics: Advance Health Care Directives and Legal Aspects of Professional Home Care.
She is a member of the Department of Health’s Advisory Group on Protection of Liberty Safeguards and a member of the National Disability Authority’s Research Ethics Committee on the Discharge of Wards of Court Project.
This public lecture by Patricia Rickard-Clarke will be followed by a Q&A session a panel of experts.
Áine Flynn is a solicitor and former senior partner in Dublin firm KOD Lyons, specialising in public interest law. She was on the panel of legal representatives of the Mental Health Commission and the Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board from their inception in 2006 and represented clients in wardship. She has been a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society since 2012 and is a previous member of the Law Society Mental Health and Capacity Task Force. In October 2017 she was appointed inaugural Director of the Decision Support Service under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity)Act 2015.
Amanda Casey was appointed as the first Chief Social Worker for the HSE in August 2024. She qualified as a Social Worker in Trinity College Dublin in 1996 and has worked in a variety of settings since that time, including Adoption and Fostering and Medical Social Work. She has also held a hospital group role as Implementation Lead for the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act and Adult Safeguarding. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Work, Social Justice and Social Policy, University College Dublin. Amanda has post graduate qualifications in Leadership, Quality Improvement and Lean Six Sigma for Healthcare. Amanda’s role is to lead on the HSE reform programme for adult safeguarding in Ireland.
Dr Róisín Coary is a consultant in Geriatric and General Internal Medicine in Tallaght University Hospital. Her specialist interests are medical and capacity law, and peri-operative medicine. In 2019 she completed aProfessional Certificate in Medico-legal Aspects of Healthcare, and is currently completing an Advanced Diploma in Medical Law through the Kings’ Inns. She is also enrolled on the HSE’s ADM mentorship programme.
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We are an all-Ireland interdisciplinaryprofessional organisation which enables research, education and practice in thefield of ageing. As part of our work we conduct a public lecture series,supported by the HSE, which aims to provide informative lectures to the generalpublic on topics related to health and ageing.
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