This is where we need to start recognising and responding to frailty. In @Krockdoc's native Newfoundland, this is the point at which people can no longer shovel snow off the roof - a common early warning sign that functional decline has begun #BGSconf
"Proactive care is key to delaying frailty, maintaining independence, and reducing avoidable ill health. We need a more equitable approach to care across the UK." ~ @JKDhesi, BGS President Elect
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"#FallsPrevention is often associated with risk-averse attitude whereby people are discouraged from mobilising so they do not fall, consequently becoming deconditioned, increasing fall risk"
BGS #FallsAwarenessWeek Blog via @DontBeADingbat & Lisa Alcock https://t.co/T9n3fDmAPQ
The role of District Nurses is vital, increasingly complex and requires considerable skill. Without adequate DNs the nursing care of our older patients especially and palliative care in the home setting will fail.
@TheQNI
#Rehabilitation should be a component of virtually all care for older people. There is no such thing as ‘no rehabilitation potential.’
Read our new report 'Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Everyone’s business' #BGSrehab#RighttoRehab#Rehablegend https://t.co/jdPObzD6XJ
One of the things we often get wrong in health & care improvement is prioritising performance improvement (process-technical aspects) over the emotional experience of participants. We need to make consideration of emotional factors one of our highest priorities in change initiatives. This includes:
1) how we make connections with values, through emotions, to engage people in change &
2) appreciating emotions & related cognitions & behaviours surrounding events during change.
See: https://t.co/cpQsfsNVds Via @StevenHCady. Graphic: @gapingvoid
The shortage of district nurses to provide vital care in the community can lead to avoidable deaths. An important coroner's report here - the numbers of DNs has more than halved since 2010:
Our #frailty elearning course covers 4 modules: Understanding & Communicating Frailty, Identifying Frailty, Supporting People Living with Frailty & Building Systems Fit for Frailty. And it is FREE for all HCPs thanks to funding from @NHSEnglandCHS.
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@autcareandshare My son used to always say ‘bye bye’ to lots of things and places when he was younger, I now realise that it was his way of trying to tell us what he needed to make him feel safer and more comfortable .
It’s the new buzzword of team development but here is how to build psychological safety, and the hierarchy of needs that define the order of how #psychologicalsafety is built.
#modernleadership