Katie Robinson
University of Limerick
Katie Robinson
Katie is Professor in Occupational Therapy and co-lead of the Ageing Research Centre. She is the University of Limerick lead for the Health Research Board Trials Methodology Network. She is currently Course Director of the BSc Occupational Therapy program and leading a HRB funded investigator Led Project to develop a Core Outcome Set for research studies with older adults in the Emergency Department. She is currently collaborating on a project to develop a model of care for specialist service provision to nursing home residents in Ireland.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Ireland; |
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| Topics | Care integration/ coordination; Care outcomes; Continence Care in LTC; COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTC; Home/domiciliary care; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; |
| Methods | Critical Discourse Analysis; Delphi surveys; Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Feasibility studies; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Interviews; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal qualitative studies; Participatory research methods; Qualitative studies; Questionnaire; Scoping reviews; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Vignettes and narratives; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Continence Care in Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Qualitative Research; |
| Website | https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/katie-robinson |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0003-1008-9857 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ruM1DVcAAAAJ&hl=en |
| Research interests | Older adult rehabilitation Alternative models of care for older adults Transitions of care for older adults |
| Key publications | Condon, B., Griffin, A., Fitzgerald, C., Shanahan, E., Glynn, L., O’Connor, M., Hayes, C., Manning, M., Galvin, R., Leahy, A. and Robinson, K., 2024. Older adults experience of transition to the community from the emergency department: a qualitative evidence synthesis. BMC geriatrics, 24(1), p.233. O’Callaghan, M., Robinson, K., Whiston, A., Senter, M. and Clifford, A.M., 2025. The effect of conservative non-pharmacological interventions on the management of urinary incontinence in older adults living with frailty: Systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One, 20(5), p.e0322742. McCarthy, A., Galvin, R., Dockery, F., McLoughlin, K., O’Connor, M., Corey, G., Whiston, A., Carey, L., Steed, F., Tierney, A. and Robinson, K., 2023. Multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation for older adults with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical and process outcomes. BMC geriatrics, 23(1), p.391. |