David O’donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 453124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David O’donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | O’donnell |
| SIGNATURE | O’DONNELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7562-5484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals: An Irish case study
This article explores the poorly understood and under-researched topic of carer harm, where family carers experience harm from the person they are caring for. Nine narrative interviews were conducted with family carers of people living with dementia and autism, and two with professionals. Three focus groups were convened with professionals, including social workers, nurses, and advocacy organizations, with four to five participants in each (n = 1…
Indigeneity on the Oceanic Stage: Intimations of the Local in a Globalised World
Coercive control of older adults in filial relationships: A hybrid concept analysis
Purpose This study aims to synthesise published evidence relating to filial coercive control to generate an understanding of this under-explored concept. This paper identifies its defining characteristics and explores the circumstances under which the phenomenon manifests in the lives of older adults. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review methodology was adopted to guide the literature review, while a concept analysis methodology guided da…
Ageing well: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing
An examination of relational dynamics of power in the context of supported (assisted) decision‐making with older people and those with disabilities in an acute healthcare setting
INTRODUCTION: Supported (assisted) healthcare decision-making (ADM) focuses attention on how people with disabilities, including cognitive impairments, can be best supported to make decisions about their health and social care on an equitable basis with others. Meaningful implementation of legal frameworks for ADM challenges long-held presumptions about who has access to valued decision-making resources, influence and power within a particular so…
Financial abuse of older people by third parties in banking institutions: A qualitative exploration
Financial abuse is a significant form of elder maltreatment and is frequently ranked in the top two most common forms of abuse perpetration. Despite this, it is under-identified, under-reported and under-prosecuted. Financial institutions, such as banks, are important environments for identifying and responding to the financial abuse of older people. Traditionally, banks have not always been part of inter-sectorial responses to financial abuse, y…
Using and improving the PHISICC paper-based tools in the health facility laboratories: Examples of Human Centered Design taking systems thinking into practice, in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria
Background: Health workers in low- and middle-income countries are increasingly demanded to collect more and more data to report them to higher levels of the health information system (HIS), in detriment of useful data for clinical and public health decision-making, potentially compromising the quality of their health care provison. In order to support health workers' decision-making, we engaged with partners in Côte d'Ivoire, Mozambique and Nige…
A Pilot Sexual and Gender Minority Health Curriculum for the Largest Public Health Care System in the United States
‘Language has been granted too much power’. 1,p.1 Challenging the power of words with time and flexibility in the precommencement stage of research involving those with cognitive impairment
Style and Meaning: Essays on the Anthropology of Art, Anthony Forge (ed. Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) (2017)
Review of: Style and Meaning: Essays on the Anthropology of Art , Anthony Forge (ed. Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) (2017) Leiden: Sidestone Press, 303 pp., ISBN 978 9 08890 446 2 (pbk), €39.95
What Bothers Me Most Is the Disparity between the Choices that People Have or Don’t Have”: A Qualitative Study on the Health Systems Responsiveness to Implementing the Assisted Decision-Making (Capaci…
The commencement of ADM provides an opportunity to redefine the provision, practices, and priorities of healthcare in Ireland to enable improved patient-centred care. To facilitate implementation of ADM, it is therefore critical to identify and provide adequate resources and work towards solutions to ensure a seamless commencement of the legislation
New Ways of Working? A Rapid Exploration of Emerging Evidence Regarding the Care of Older People during Covid19
Health and social care staff have had to quickly adapt, respond and improve teamwork, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to rapidly summarize the emerging evidence of new ways of working in the care of older people during this period. We conducted an exploration of the emerging evidence within the timeframe of 1 March 2020 to 11 May 2020. To capture a broad perspective, we undertook thematic analysis of Twitter data which w…
PlayDecide: Patient Safety – A “serious game” learning tool to discuss medical professionalism in relation to reporting and patient safety
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
The PlayDecide Patient Safety game: A “serious game” to discuss medical professionalism in relation to patient safety
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Implementing Assisted Decision-making in Healthcare in Ireland: Understanding Enablers, Barriers and Context from the perspective of patients and healthcare professionals
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Co-designing a Systematic Approach to improving care for Frail Older Patients
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Engaging active citizen participation in the co-creation of an educational and information campaign to support older people to be empowered against abuse: Key learnings for integrative care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The Case Management Approach to Protecting Older People from Abuse and Mistreatment: Lessons from the Irish Experience
The aim of this paper is to inform the development of social work practice and policy by applying a practice-based evidence perspective to the experiential knowledge of social workers responsible for managing cases of elder abuse in Ireland. The study adopted a qualitative descriptive research design. Semi-structured interview data were collected from a purposive sample of eighteen senior case workers and inductive thematic analysis was undertake…
Oral Health of Psychiatric In-Patients in Hong Kong
Background: Poor oral health has been reported among various psychiatric populations. Little is known regarding the oral health among psychiatric patients in Asia. Aims: To examine the oral health status of a group of Chinese psychiatric inpatients in a long-term rehabilitation facility. Methods: A dental survey using the WHO standardised dental evaluation form was conducted in adult psychiatric patients in a rehabilitation programme. A qualified…
The cultural boundedness of theory and practice in HRD
Argues that cultural influences may not only affect a professional’s implicit concept of what constitutes effective practice, but may also affect researchers’ explicit theories. Suggests that this means that many HRD practices, processes, procedures and language are specific to cultures. Explores some of the reasons underlying the increasing importance placed on cultural issues by multinational companies, touching on a number of theoretical and e…
Student speech pathologist attitudes to disabled people: Is there any need for change
The attitudes of speech pathologists towards disabled persons may have an impact on the outcomes of the rehabilitation process with disabled clients. Professional education itself can contribute to the formation of positive attitudes to disability and disabled people. This study was designed to survey the attitudes of speech pathology students in Hong Kong towards disabled persons, using the Scale of Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons (SADP). It w…
Psychological Distress and Size of Place: The Epidemiology of Rural Economic Stress
Size-of-place differences in the distribution of psychological distress are examined. Residents in communities of less than 2,500 population are predicted to have higher levels of distress than persons living in farm, rural nonfarm, and larger places. A research instrument was designed to measure economic stress, personal resources, and psychological distress in a survey of adult householders in a midwestern state. Results support the interpretat…
Psychological Distress and Size of Place: The Epidemiology of Rural Economic Stress
Size-of-place differences in the distribution of psychological distress are examined. Residents in communities of less than 2,500 population are predicted to have higher levels of distress than persons living in farm, rural nonfarm, and larger places. A research instrument was designed to measure economic stress, personal resources, and psychological distress in a survey of adult householders in a midwestern state. Results support the interpretat…
The Case Management Approach to Protecting Older People from Abuse and Mistreatment: Lessons from the Irish Experience
The aim of this paper is to inform the development of social work practice and policy by applying a practice-based evidence perspective to the experiential knowledge of social workers responsible for managing cases of elder abuse in Ireland. The study adopted a qualitative descriptive research design. Semi-structured interview data were collected from a purposive sample of eighteen senior case workers and inductive thematic analysis was undertake…
Ageing well: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing
Financial abuse of older people by third parties in banking institutions: A qualitative exploration
Financial abuse is a significant form of elder maltreatment and is frequently ranked in the top two most common forms of abuse perpetration. Despite this, it is under-identified, under-reported and under-prosecuted. Financial institutions, such as banks, are important environments for identifying and responding to the financial abuse of older people. Traditionally, banks have not always been part of inter-sectorial responses to financial abuse, y…
Psychological Distress and Size of Place: The Epidemiology of Rural Economic Stress
Size-of-place differences in the distribution of psychological distress are examined. Residents in communities of less than 2,500 population are predicted to have higher levels of distress than persons living in farm, rural nonfarm, and larger places. A research instrument was designed to measure economic stress, personal resources, and psychological distress in a survey of adult householders in a midwestern state. Results support the interpretat…
The cultural boundedness of theory and practice in HRD
Argues that cultural influences may not only affect a professional’s implicit concept of what constitutes effective practice, but may also affect researchers’ explicit theories. Suggests that this means that many HRD practices, processes, procedures and language are specific to cultures. Explores some of the reasons underlying the increasing importance placed on cultural issues by multinational companies, touching on a number of theoretical and e…
Student speech pathologist attitudes to disabled people: Is there any need for change
The attitudes of speech pathologists towards disabled persons may have an impact on the outcomes of the rehabilitation process with disabled clients. Professional education itself can contribute to the formation of positive attitudes to disability and disabled people. This study was designed to survey the attitudes of speech pathology students in Hong Kong towards disabled persons, using the Scale of Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons (SADP). It w…
Oral Health of Psychiatric In-Patients in Hong Kong
Background: Poor oral health has been reported among various psychiatric populations. Little is known regarding the oral health among psychiatric patients in Asia. Aims: To examine the oral health status of a group of Chinese psychiatric inpatients in a long-term rehabilitation facility. Methods: A dental survey using the WHO standardised dental evaluation form was conducted in adult psychiatric patients in a rehabilitation programme. A qualified…
The Case Management Approach to Protecting Older People from Abuse and Mistreatment: Lessons from the Irish Experience
The aim of this paper is to inform the development of social work practice and policy by applying a practice-based evidence perspective to the experiential knowledge of social workers responsible for managing cases of elder abuse in Ireland. The study adopted a qualitative descriptive research design. Semi-structured interview data were collected from a purposive sample of eighteen senior case workers and inductive thematic analysis was undertake…
Engaging active citizen participation in the co-creation of an educational and information campaign to support older people to be empowered against abuse: Key learnings for integrative care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Co-designing a Systematic Approach to improving care for Frail Older Patients
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
PlayDecide: Patient Safety – A “serious game” learning tool to discuss medical professionalism in relation to reporting and patient safety
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
The PlayDecide Patient Safety game: A “serious game” to discuss medical professionalism in relation to patient safety
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Implementing Assisted Decision-making in Healthcare in Ireland: Understanding Enablers, Barriers and Context from the perspective of patients and healthcare professionals
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
What Bothers Me Most Is the Disparity between the Choices that People Have or Don’t Have”: A Qualitative Study on the Health Systems Responsiveness to Implementing the Assisted Decision-Making (Capaci…
The commencement of ADM provides an opportunity to redefine the provision, practices, and priorities of healthcare in Ireland to enable improved patient-centred care. To facilitate implementation of ADM, it is therefore critical to identify and provide adequate resources and work towards solutions to ensure a seamless commencement of the legislation
New Ways of Working? A Rapid Exploration of Emerging Evidence Regarding the Care of Older People during Covid19
Health and social care staff have had to quickly adapt, respond and improve teamwork, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to rapidly summarize the emerging evidence of new ways of working in the care of older people during this period. We conducted an exploration of the emerging evidence within the timeframe of 1 March 2020 to 11 May 2020. To capture a broad perspective, we undertook thematic analysis of Twitter data which w…
Style and Meaning: Essays on the Anthropology of Art, Anthony Forge (ed. Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) (2017)
Review of: Style and Meaning: Essays on the Anthropology of Art , Anthony Forge (ed. Alison Clark and Nicholas Thomas) (2017) Leiden: Sidestone Press, 303 pp., ISBN 978 9 08890 446 2 (pbk), €39.95
Using and improving the PHISICC paper-based tools in the health facility laboratories: Examples of Human Centered Design taking systems thinking into practice, in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria
Background: Health workers in low- and middle-income countries are increasingly demanded to collect more and more data to report them to higher levels of the health information system (HIS), in detriment of useful data for clinical and public health decision-making, potentially compromising the quality of their health care provison. In order to support health workers' decision-making, we engaged with partners in Côte d'Ivoire, Mozambique and Nige…
A Pilot Sexual and Gender Minority Health Curriculum for the Largest Public Health Care System in the United States
‘Language has been granted too much power’. 1,p.1 Challenging the power of words with time and flexibility in the precommencement stage of research involving those with cognitive impairment
An examination of relational dynamics of power in the context of supported (assisted) decision‐making with older people and those with disabilities in an acute healthcare setting
INTRODUCTION: Supported (assisted) healthcare decision-making (ADM) focuses attention on how people with disabilities, including cognitive impairments, can be best supported to make decisions about their health and social care on an equitable basis with others. Meaningful implementation of legal frameworks for ADM challenges long-held presumptions about who has access to valued decision-making resources, influence and power within a particular so…
Financial abuse of older people by third parties in banking institutions: A qualitative exploration
Financial abuse is a significant form of elder maltreatment and is frequently ranked in the top two most common forms of abuse perpetration. Despite this, it is under-identified, under-reported and under-prosecuted. Financial institutions, such as banks, are important environments for identifying and responding to the financial abuse of older people. Traditionally, banks have not always been part of inter-sectorial responses to financial abuse, y…
Coercive control of older adults in filial relationships: A hybrid concept analysis
Purpose This study aims to synthesise published evidence relating to filial coercive control to generate an understanding of this under-explored concept. This paper identifies its defining characteristics and explores the circumstances under which the phenomenon manifests in the lives of older adults. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review methodology was adopted to guide the literature review, while a concept analysis methodology guided da…
Ageing well: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing
Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals: An Irish case study
This article explores the poorly understood and under-researched topic of carer harm, where family carers experience harm from the person they are caring for. Nine narrative interviews were conducted with family carers of people living with dementia and autism, and two with professionals. Three focus groups were convened with professionals, including social workers, nurses, and advocacy organizations, with four to five participants in each (n = 1…
Indigeneity on the Oceanic Stage: Intimations of the Local in a Globalised World
Medicine (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Health care (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Elder Abuse and Neglect (4 works)