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Brookfield Health Sciences Complex where teaching in gerontology, older person rehabilitation and dementia takes place

Apply for postgraduate or CPD courses in Older Person Rehabilitation or Dementia


Applications are currently being invited, for the next intake of Master's and Postgraduate Certificate Programmes, along with Individual CPD Modules.

Members of the In-Touch consortium which has received €7.5m Horizon research funding

In-Touch consortium on palliative care


Prof. Suzanne Timmons co-coordinator of In-Touch consortium on Dementia Palliative Care awarded €7.5m Horizon Europe funding.

Welcome to the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation

The Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation was established in September 2010, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, with the specific remit to establish interdisciplinary teaching and learning in Gerontology, Rehabilitation and End of Life Care in UCC.  We offer a postgraduate programme in Older Person Rehabilitation which can be studied by taking either individual CPD modules or completing one of the following streams - Postgraduate Certificate and MSc.

We also offer Postgraduate Studies in Dementia. Similiar to the Older Person Rehabilitation Programme there are different streams of study - individual CPD Modules; Postgraduate Certificate and Masters. This is a flexible, practical, interdisciplinary programme covering key topics in cognitive disorders and dementia. Apply online via UCC's application system.

Student Acheivements

CGR students present posters at European Geriatric Medicine Society Congress

Congratulations to MSc. (Older Person Rehabilitation) students Deborah Gibbons and Sandra Rice, each of whom presented posters at the EuGMS Congress in Helsinki (September 20-22, 2023).

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CGR student presents at European Geriatric Medicine Society Congress

Congratulations to MSc. (Older Person Rehabilitation) student, Jane Carbery, who presented at the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS ) Congress in Helsinki (September 20-22, 2023)

Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation

School of Medicine, UCC The Bungalow, Block 13, St. Finbarr's Hospital, Douglas Road, Cork, Republic of Ireland.

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