Zelda Greene Margaret was amazing. And also so so so kind. Always ❤️

Shockingly, only 22 reports about #augmentation & #ImpulseControlDisorder have been made for ALL #DopamineAgonists by patients & doctors in the last 5 years. We know this is vastly under reported as we have at least 1 patient a week experiencing augmentation on our Help Forum.

Beyond honoured to have worked with these great folk 🤗 Bravo rising star & PhD student #SanoraYonan💐💐 liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jp… UKSRG RCSLT 💙 Dr Justin Roe ASHA Palliative Care CEN for SLTs ESSD S O'Keeffe Hazel Roddam, FRCSLT

Really concerned that this blog contradicts NICE CG161 falls prevention guidelines and the World Falls Prevention guidelines bgs.org.uk/wfg - absolutely no place for Morse or STRATIFY or other falls prediction tools in hospital falls prevention. David Oliver (also on Blue Sky)

Systematic review of MCI prognosis from Simone Salemme and co, nicely showing selection bias arising from clinical samples - population-based samples show almost half the conversion rate and more than double the rate of reversion to normal cognition alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

New UK suicide guidelines - Tons of lessons for US psychiatrists: • Risk prediction is "unreliable", "simplistic", and "flawed" - low/high risk offers false certainty • Scales are "unvalidated" and have "no predictive value" - they don't work • Understand "each

Why I routinely under-diagnose: 1)Initial impressions often wrong 2)We see patients on worst day- doesnt extrapolate to future 3)Easy to later up diagnose 4)Hard to erase wrong label 5)Harms of overdiagnosis far worse- stigma/meds 6)I wish all diagnosis could be written in pencil

An encouraging article in the #DailyMail online ( behind a paywall). It confirms that iron therapy should be 1st line treatment & Dr Kirstie Anderson of Newcastle Trust is recalling ALL patients on #DopamineAgonists. Fantastic news!

As part of the media reporting of NICE’s decision not to approve lecanemab/donanemab for the NHS, I was asked why I didn’t consider giving patients “another 4 to 6 months” to be a worthwhile benefit. There wasn’t time on BBC Breakfast to explain the problematic nature of this.

NEW BLOOD TEST FOR #ALZHEIMERS A DISASTER 1)Will cause massive overdiagnosis 2)Fear mongering turns normal aging into disease 3)No effective treatment 4)Available treatments> awful complications/huge expense 5)Drug company hype/False hope Great reporting: garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-coverage…

IGS President Dr. Emer Ahern’s letter to the editor published in The Irish Times “Older adults are entitled to the same dignity, autonomy and human rights as anyone else.” Dignity and rights don’t expire with age. Deirdre Lang Íde O'Shaughnessy Rose Galvin Edel McDaid

Analyses from Sweden suggesting that cognitive reserve is really rooted in early life, with limited opportunity therefore to affect this in adulthood. Supported by findings from the 1946 birth cohort in the UK alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

Really powerful article from Jonathan Moens and colleagues about the abuse of older people through restraints. Focuses on Italy, Spain and Portugal but occurs much more widely undark.org/2025/07/25/eld…

Great to see this practical tool from the Data Protection Commission to support health and social care professionals understand the legal bases for sharing information when working with adults at risk of harm and abuse. ⁦HSE Ireland⁩ ⁦Safeguarding Ireland⁩ ⁦IASW⁩

My Indian mother Dr Madeleine Khare travelled here, aged 17 in 1954, to commence her medical studies in RCSI . She was a beloved only child and her parents sent her here specifically because they understood and were correct that Ireland was a safe country for her. So they