If you’re a health or care professional (or even non professional) looking after older people then you’ve found your tribe @GeriSoc … loads of resources, best practice guidance, education, events. Come and join one of the biggest MDTs in the world 👇and help shape the future
@JKDhesi@drandyclegg@GeriSoc@TonyAvery1 Also, we should be routinely warning patients before starting medications with significant anticholinergic burden. Some increase risk of dementia by 20%. That is significant. Patients have a right to be warned about this so they can make informed decisions
Huge thanks to @TheDA_UK for inviting me to give the closing keynote of the Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference.
I spoke on a subject dear to my heart - the insidious "kindwashing" of UK medicine.
Is it really a doctor's formal duty - as the now GMC insists - to be "kind"? 🧵
Overseas care workers contribute so much to social care. Making it harder to get staff for care homes and home care will have knock-on effects on older people's health, wellbeing and independence @GeriSoc
Updated NICE guideline recommends occupational therapists, or other trained professionals to undertake hazard assessments to prevent falls in older people and people 50+ at higher risk, aiming to reduce hospital admissions.
Learn more: https://t.co/VmGXoXcsZy
Our #Pharmacy Professionals Group has launched on #WorldPharmacistsDay. Frailty, pharmacy, medicines management and deprescribing are increasingly relevant in older adults' care, and this group aims to support professionals involved in this area of care.
https://t.co/uG3oC1h1V3
Over the next 12 months we’ll be sharing our members’ stories about why they chose to work in older people's healthcare and encouraging others to consider this career path. #ChooseGeriatrics https://t.co/GYOUEN8FmR
If you or someone you know is living with a palliative diagnosis or are approaching the last year of life – we can support you. Today we are launching the Harrogate End of Life Planning and Support Service. To find out more, go to https://t.co/0eOJtKIn24
What a great day on AFU - putting the Tea in MDT. Cake and companionship to celebrate our birthday. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate @RStray@CharlyGill29@RussNightingale @EmmaNunez15