HSR Centre

Myth Busted January 2002
Busted Again! February 2011

Fact: The proportion of Canadians 65 years of age and older is increasing as the baby-boomer generation reaches retirement age.

Fact: Older adults need more medical services than younger people.

Taken together, these snippets of reality can conjure a frightening image, in which the healthcare costs of the aging population balloon until the system becomes unsustainable, necessitating cuts to services and/or tax increases. But, healthcare costs don’t inflate uncontrollably just because there are more seniors. “Boomerangst”, as it has been cleverly dubbed, isn’t based in reality, so say the experts.
 

The Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) is based at the Department of Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. It was established as the first such centre in Ireland in 1997 to meet the growing need for research relevant to Irish services. It comprises a multidisciplinary forum of researchers.

The Centre for Clinical Health Services Research and Development (CCHSRD) at NUI Galway was established in 2006 as a timely response to the research needs of a transforming Irish health service. Recent national reforms to health care provision emphasise an integrated, interdisciplinary approach. The Centre is well placed to support and reflect this new and collaborative way of working, by harnessing as it does a rich diversity of research perspectives, methodologies and expertise from a range of disciplines.

The Centre for Health Services Research and Policy (CHSRP) is a multi-disciplinary research centre within the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. CHSRP undertakes research with a primary focus on the funding, provision, evaluation, organisation and management of health services; and the development and implementation of health policy.