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Des O'Neill

Des O'Neill

Professor in Medical Gerontology and Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at Tallaght University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin

Jun 19, 2026

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And what cult
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ontology allows us to do is to bring that complexity together.
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So it's neither failure nor bright shining.
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There's a very nice definition of cultural gerontology from Wendy Martin and Julia Twigg from this book, The Rutledge Handbook.
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And what's nice about it is its relative vagueness.
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It's a broad and conflicting usage, a tendency, a field.
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But here's the really important bit with a central focus on meaning and a desire to transcend old paradigms because we can get trapped in our professional ways of thinking and to bring a fuller, richer account of later years, redressing gerontology and geriatrics neglect.

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