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Active Retirement Ireland is a federation of over 480 local and community based voluntary organisations involving a membership approaching 25,000 older people in a countrywide active retirement movement. Founded in 1978 and currently organised into seven regional councils, the movement’s principle aim is to help retired men and women, usually over the age of 50 lead a full happy and healthy retirement by offering organised opportunities for a wide range of activities - holidays, outings and socials; creative and learning programmes; indoor and outdoor sports and community work.
Active Retirement Ireland seeks to provide a means by which affiliated local associations may secure appropriate support to enhance their individual and collective activities. It also aspires to ensure a corporate voice representing the views of its affiliated community based associations and to act on their behalf with central and local authorities and other relevant bodies.
The movement is nationwide, non-political and non-sectarian with a membership of men and women drawn from many occupations and all walks of life..
The most frequently mentioned issues which older people said were the most important factors (good or bad) affecting quality of life, were both social relationships (36%) and health (36%).*
*Age Concern research
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