Welcome back to part two, where Clare and I are continuing our conversation with Eilish Burke.

But there are other areas like our bone health, and that's my own area of research.

The osteoporosis is extremely high in comparison to what is being diagnosed, a doctor's diagnosis.

So in wave five, which was in 2023, we objectively measured using quantitative heel ultrasound.

We've moved on from that, and I'll tell you for that in a minute.

But we identified about 33% of people with osteoporosis, objectively measured, with a further 30% with osteopenia.

So that's 60% poor bone health, whereas when we asked them, had they a doctor's diagnosis, only 19% were able to tell us.

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I'm leaving it over to you to explain where you're from and what

you do.

Thank you, Nessa.

And do you know what? It's lovely to be here and it's lovely to talk.

What I love is having the opportunity to talk about the research I'm involved in and particularly research.

the research with people with intellectual disability because that's very special to me.

So my name is Ailish Burke, I'm a professor in intellectual disability nursing and I work in Trinity College Dublin in the School of Nursing and Midwifery but I'm also the co-director of the Trinity Centre for Ageing and the Life course in intellectual disability and it's within that centre that IDS Tilda sits.

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