The Active Retirement Group aims to help older people to lead a full, happy and healthy life by offering a range of organised opportunities from a wide range of activities. It would be based on self-help, we do things by ourselves for ourselves and we draw on the skills and experiences of our members.
Our group meets on one or two days in the week. Additionally, our main meeting for members is usually every second Wednesday from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. All new members are welcome. Our activities vary in accordance with the wishes of our members. Active participation is encouraged. Groups generally meet during daylight hours and in comfortable and convenient locations, usually in the community hall. Today, being over 55 doesn’t mean hanging up your runners and retiring to an armchair by the fire. Research has shown that staying fit and active is vital to ensure a healthy mind and body at any age.
Membership is open to men and women who are no longer working, i.e. retired persons and part-time workers, who have time on their hands and want to remain active. The joining fee is €15 (2009) and any new applicants are welcome to join. We are affiliated to Active Retirement Ireland, Eustace Street, Dublin 2. Part of your fee pays for the insurance, affiliation to Active Retirement Ireland, the community hall rental etc. etc.
Joining an Active retirement association offers you:
• Friendship
• Wide range of interesting activities
• New creative skills in arts and crafts
• Computer skills
• Supporting activities, indoor and outdoor
• Mid-week and Day tours
• Support information
• Discussions, Lectures, Quizzes
• Cards, Bridge
ACTIVITIES FOR NOVEMBER 2009
Mondays: Keep Fit Class, 3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Tuesdays: Aqua Aerobics, 9.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m., Finglas Swimming Pool, adm. €4.00
Wednesdays: March General Meeting, 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Thursdays: Art Class, 12.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Computer Class (advanced), 10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Fridays: Tai Chi, dates and times to be confirmed
All activities take place in the Fr. Moloney Centre, Drapier Road unless otherwise stated.
The Fr. Moloney Community Centre is situated on Drapier Road, behind the Sacred Heart College.
Nursing Homes
Services are provided from 3 units:
St Clares Home, Griffith Avenue Dublin 9, which provides residential, respite, day care and transitional care for 50 older persons (both frail elderly and dementia patients).
Clarehaven is a 39 bedded unit built in the 1950's and provides residential care for frail elderly ambulant persons, who are of low to medium dependency and who do not require a high level of nursing/ medical care.
Seanchara community unit provides residential, respite and day care for 50 older persons.
The philosophy of Claremount residential and day care services is to provide a quality holistic service to older persons delivered by skilled professionals that are customer focused and recognise the rights and needs of each individual and their family.
In addition a number of services operate from Anam Chara health Centre. These include:
Community Intervention Team (CIT), which is a non medical, fast tracked, 'care in the community' immediate support for up to 72 hours. The aim of CIT is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, therefore increasing the number of acute beds and to facilitate an early discharge from the emergency department of the Mater Hospital.
Community Geriatrician Service which is a specialist inreach/ outreach service to patients in public and private residential care in the Mater catchment area.
St. Clare’s Home Phone: 704 4200
Sean Chara Phone:
West Wing: 7044 415 and East Wing 7044 414
Part Time Pastoral Worker - Doreen Groome
Clarehaven Phone: 837 2409
The priests of the parish celebrate the sacraments of the Eucharist, Reconciliation and the Anointing of the sick regularly in the Nursing Homes.
Each First Friday members of the parish team bring Communion to the sick and housebound.
Claremount residential and community service is based in the LHO of Dublin North Central. It provides continuing care to older persons over 65 including clients of the Psychiatry or old age team. It has a bed compliment of 140 and also provides respite care, transitional care and day care services.
