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  1. Factors affecting the willingness to use home-care robots among Chinese older adults as potential users

    Article • Innovation in Aging, February 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  2. Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals: An Irish case study

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  3. From the ground up: stakeholders’ representations of the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA)

    Article • Psychology Health & Medicine, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  4. Interdisciplinary team members’ experiences of family meetings in an Irish rehabilitation hospital: a social work action-research project

    Article • European Social Work Research, April 2024, Policy Press

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  5. Admission of an older person into a care home in Europe: exploring the dimensions of a ‘Healthy Transition’ and the potential role of social work

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  6. ‘Ageing well’: Discursive constructions of ageing and health in the public reach of a national longitudinal study on ageing

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Donnelly, Professor Desmond O'Neill

  7. Dementia research in Ireland: What should we prioritise?

    Article • HRB Open Research, November 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    UNAI DIAZ-ORUETA, Dominic Trépel, Dr Sarah Donnelly

  8. Rehabilitation needs of people with brain tumours in Ireland: Protocol for a prospective, mixed methods action research study (“Brain-RESTORE”)

    Article • HRB Open Research, September 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  9. A realist process evaluation of an intervention to promote competencies in interprofessional collaboration among interdisciplinary integrated care teams for older people: Study protocol.

    Article • HRB Open Research, September 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  10. Care robots as enabling assistive technology: implications for quality of life and disability policy

    Article • June 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  11. Dementia research in Ireland: What should we prioritise?

    Article • HRB Open Research, February 2023, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    UNAI DIAZ-ORUETA, Dr Sarah Donnelly

  12. Developing competence in interprofessional collaboration within integrated care teams for older people in the Republic of Ireland: A starter kit

    Article • Journal of Interprofessional Care, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  13. Adult Safeguarding Legislation—The Key to Addressing Dualism of Agency and Structure? An Exploration of how Irish Social Workers Protect Adults at Risk in the Absence of Adult Safeguarding Legislation

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  14. The covid-19 pandemic and care homes for older people in Europe - deaths, damage and violations of human rights

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  15. Safeguarding People Living with Dementia: How Social Workers Can Use Supported Decision-Making Strategies to Support the Human Rights of Individuals during Adult Safeguarding Enquiries

    Article • The British Journal of Social Work, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  16. Home‐care robots – Attitudes and perceptions among older people, carers and care professionals in Ireland: A questionnaire study

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, May 2021, Wiley

    Sayuri Suwa, Dr Sarah Donnelly

  17. Assisted decision-making and interprofessional collaboration in the care of older people: a qualitative study exploring perceptions of barriers and facilitators in the acute hospital setting

    Article • Journal of Interprofessional Care, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  18. Exploring perceptions toward home-care robots for older people in Finland, Ireland, and Japan: A comparative questionnaire study

    Article • Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, November 2020, Elsevier

    Sayuri Suwa, Dr Sarah Donnelly

  19. Social work, mental health, older people and COVID-19

    Article • International Psychogeriatrics, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  20. Older People in the Context of COVID-19: A European Perspective

    Article • Journal of Gerontological Social Work, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  21. “What Bothers Me Most Is the Disparity between the Choices that People Have or Don’t Have”: A Qualitative Study on the Health Systems Responsiveness to Implementing the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act in Ireland

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  22. Embedding collective leadership to foster collaborative inter-professional working in the care of older people (ECLECTIC): Study protocol

    Article • HRB Open Research, March 2020, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  23. Mandatory reporting and adult safeguarding: a rapid realist review

    Article • The Journal of Adult Protection, October 2019, Emerald

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  24. Creating organisational and practice change through the use of co-operative inquiry groups in healthcare settings

    Article • Action Research, June 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  25. Reflections on the use of community based participatory research to affect social and political change: examples from research with refugees and older people in Ireland

    Article • European Journal of Social Work, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  26. Voices that matter: end-of-life care in two acute hospitals from the perspective of bereaved relatives

    Article • BMC Palliative Care, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  27. How are people with dementia involved in care-planning and decision-making? An Irish social work perspective

    Article • Dementia, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  28. Promoting assisted decision-making in acute care settings for care planning purposes: Study protocol

    Article • HRB Open Research, February 2018, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  29. Care Planning Meetings: Issues for Policy, Multi-disciplinary Practice and Patient Participation

    Article • Practice, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  30. The Impact of Social Work Intervention in Alcohol-Induced Pancreatitis in Ireland: a Single-Center Experience

    Article • Alcohol and Alcoholism, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sarah Donnelly

  31. Multiprofessional Views on Older Patients’ Participation in Care Planning Meetings in a Hospital Context

    Article • Practice, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Janet Anand, Professor Desmond O'Neill, Dr Sarah Donnelly