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Delirium treatment: 🧠 BRAIN CARE + 🤷🏼 MIND CARE #delirium #WDAD2025

Great opportunity for #delirium awareness raising, speaking to between 60-70 University of the Third Age u3a attendees in Helensburgh Sharing insights from my practice, #research and my experiences as a family carer CSO(Health)Scotland SDA Healthcare Improvement Scotland Brain Health ARC

📢Calling experts in UK health and social care staff wellbeing, including staff working there! We need your help to understand the demands staff face at work and which resources best support them to inform future research. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3wb5vj6x

Worth reading "frailty and successful aging are social constructs that derive their meaning from what society values (autonomy, youthful capacities)." What Frailty Can Tell Us About Successful Ageing: Towards a Different Paradigm for Ageing Well academic.oup.com/gerontologist/…

Human kindness can significantly reduce the distress associated with #delirium. Eye contact, gentle words, reassurance, explanation of context - simple and quick to do, and very effective in improving the experience of the delirious patient. Build this into every interaction.

Being, or feeling like burden to others is part of normal experience and what makes us human. We support & lift each other in our burdens. Our burdens are opportunities for us & others to show love. We were all helpless babies and,for the most part, our parents cared for us

Full article: Using choice modelling to inform service sustainability for dementia Meeting Centres for people living with dementia in the UK tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

"Knowing what ‘ought’ to happen..to improve services has resulted in initiatives & interventions that haven't challenged wider systems in which services are embedded..The burden to know where &how to secure ..support remains the responsibility of the dyad" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nearly 2 out of 3 people say they (or someone they care for) have had a problem with NHS admin in the past year. But what impact do these experiences have on the public's perceptions of the NHS? We explored this in our February long read: kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

📷 Claire Goodman💚.bsky.social· According to the link below Meta took data from 147 of my papers (without my permission) to train their AI, here's where to look, the caveat it might not be fully accurate. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The study has provided evidence for the inclusion of these three QoL measures in any future MDS for care home residents.👏👏rdcu.be/egx50

Hey, what do you think? IV or IO? This video in our partnership with Dr. Glaucomflecken summarizes new research comparing initial attempts at intraosseous or intravenous vascular access in adults who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Full trial: nej.md/DrG14

Brilli to have Drs Vernon & Law highlighting that 75% of deaths occur in people> 65yrs & we need to commission services that address needs of those living with MLTC, frailty, dementia, taking health inequalities into account. A system level approach is necessary British Geriatrics Society

Do you support a family member or friend living with #dementia? 💭 If you're looking to learn new skills and knowledge to cope well while caring for a person with dementia, you may be eligible to take part in this CareCoach #study. Find out more here: norwichcrtu.uea.ac.uk/redcap/surveys….

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Our Frailty elearning course is free to all health and social care professionals and carries 10 CPD credits. If you work with older people living with or at risk of frailty, register now! buff.ly/0A4koz5

Just got this message relayed to me through from my site. It breaks my heart... "Dear Mr Lewis. I invested in respect of the advice you discussed with Cat Deeley. When trying to transfer funds I was prevented by my bank 3 times, culminating in a phone call from them telling me

Myth: Only people with dementia get delirium. Fact: While dementia increases risk, anyone can develop delirium. In hospitals, about 60% of people with delirium also have dementia.

Demis Hassabis Many possibilities for simple #delirium-related webapps - here is another one related to brain care and mind care of people with delirium - the mind care element is often not done well.

After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/5)