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‘We’ll Keep an Eye on It’: Aortic Stenosis After 70 and the Advice That Changed in 2025

The 2025 European guidelines on aortic stenosis lowered the TAVI age threshold to 70 and…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 3, 2026

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Four Centimetres Shorter: Spinal Fragility Fractures After 70 and the Referral Ireland Keeps Missing

Spinal fragility fractures are the commonest fracture caused by osteoporosis and the most often missed:…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 2, 2026

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Bullous Pemphigoid After 70: The Itch That Arrives Months Before the Blisters

Bullous pemphigoid is the most common autoimmune blistering disease and overwhelmingly affects people over 70.…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 1, 2026

Close-up of an older person's hands resting on a walking stick

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Both Wrists, Then the Heart: Cardiac Amyloidosis After 70 in Ireland

Carpal tunnel in both hands can precede cardiac amyloidosis by a decade. The red flags,…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 1, 2026

An older woman standing by a window with her hand raised to her face

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Giant cell arteritis after 50: the headache where treatment starts before the diagnosis

Giant cell arteritis is the one headache after 50 that cannot wait. Untreated, up to…

Valentina Ní CríonnaSeptember 30, 2026

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Old Before the Pension: What Homelessness Does to Ageing in Ireland

Ireland counted 271 people aged 65+ in emergency accommodation in August 2026, and 3,394 aged…

Valentina Ní CríonnaSeptember 29, 2026

An older person's hands stitching a white shirt by hand, head bowed over the work

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Buttons, Coins and Keys: Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and the Diagnosis That Takes 15 Months

Degenerative cervical myelopathy is slow spinal cord compression in the neck, and it shows up…

Valentina Ní CríonnaSeptember 29, 2026

An older woman wearing glasses reading by a bright window

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‘I Thought I Was Losing My Mind’: Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Sight Loss in Ireland

Charles Bonnet syndrome causes silent visual hallucinations in people whose sight is failing, and it…

Valentina Ní CríonnaSeptember 28, 2026

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Heel pain after 50: why that first step out of bed hurts, and what actually helps

Heel pain after 50 is usually one of three things, and they are treated differently.…

Valentina Ní CríonnaSeptember 28, 2026

An older man sitting at home with his hand on his chin, deep in thought

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Nobody Mentions the Third Door: Dialysis, Transplant and Conservative Kidney Management After 70 in Ireland

Kidney failure after 70 has three answers, not one. Alongside dialysis and transplant sits conservative…

Valentina Ní CríonnaSeptember 27, 2026

‘We’ll Keep an Eye on It’: Aortic Stenosis After 70 and the Advice That Changed in 2025

Four Centimetres Shorter: Spinal Fragility Fractures After 70 and the Referral Ireland Keeps Missing

Bullous Pemphigoid After 70: The Itch That Arrives Months Before the Blisters

Both Wrists, Then the Heart: Cardiac Amyloidosis After 70 in Ireland

Giant cell arteritis after 50: the headache where treatment starts before the diagnosis

Old Before the Pension: What Homelessness Does to Ageing in Ireland

Buttons, Coins and Keys: Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and the Diagnosis That Takes 15 Months

‘I Thought I Was Losing My Mind’: Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Sight Loss in Ireland

Heel pain after 50: why that first step out of bed hurts, and what actually helps

Nobody Mentions the Third Door: Dialysis, Transplant and Conservative Kidney Management After 70 in Ireland

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