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#💜NFEP2023 @ahernemer gives a brilliant and passionate talk on what we need to do time and again for our older adults to the benefit of all accessing our healthcare services.

"Older people are marginalised and perceived as a burden... Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the context of long-term care." Two years into the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing, we announce a new Lancet Commission: hubs.li/Q01Q7Y-v0

The dual advocacy role of geriatric medicine - opening up access to care and protecting from harm of excessive medicalisation in parallel - not Janus faced David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) #BGSconf

Thank you for the invite. And the very warm welcome. And for giving up your time on a warm early summer evening. Excuse my being slightly unnerved at finding myself back in Coláiste Éamann Rís - Cork City, a full 31 years since I left.

We’re all very proud of our colleagues in the Cork University Hospitals Stroke team who won the SimStars competition yesterday evening in ASSERT Centre, UCC. for their simulation of communication in the setting of post-stroke dysphasia and how to figure out what matters most to patients.

- Renal patients don’t get “some dialysis” - Cancer patients don’t get “a bit of chemotherapy” - Septic patients don’t get “a few antibiotics” Rehabilitation after a stroke is dose dependent. It gets people out of hospitals, back to their homes, their families, their lives.

Rehabilitation can fix the existential problem of 1/3 of patients getting sicker in hospital. Rehabilitation in tandem with, and especially after, an acute care episode can unblock our hospitals. Not “step down”. Not “convalescence”. Not “transitional care”. Rehabilitation.

A burdened healthcare system that looks to relieve pressure by suggesting that older people should “just accept their fate”, is one where compassion has become eroded and perspective has been lost.

Delighted to present at the IASLT conference this morning with Anne Barrett CUH_SLT

Apart from the sporting benefits of this, it’s a model of public health improvement - get experts to explain key messages to non-experts and, in turn, try to help promote good habits in kids from an early age. Very enjoyable. Learnt a lot.

Lovely acknowledgment here in EchoLive.ie, not just of my consultant colleague Dr. Kirstyn James and the team in the Cork University Hospitals stroke service, but also the crucial role played by the National Ambulance Service 🇮🇪🚑 in acute stroke care.

We have a number of Geriatric Medicine Registrar positions available in Cork University Hospitals from July, with opportunities to gain experience in Stroke, Geriatric Medicine and Orthogeriatrics & Trauma. rezoomo.com/job/60456/?Reg…

Great having Taoiseach Leo Varadkar address a sell out Stroke Alliance For Europe 2nd #lifeafterstroke conference in Dublin, outlining challenge of stroke for Europe, progress made but a commitment & need to better understand/support life after stroke European Stroke Org British & Irish Association of Stroke Physicians

Hospitals are not congested because of inappropriate attendances to ED. Access to rehabilitation - the reversal of functional decline that accompanies acute illness in older adults particularly - can get our patients out of hospital, back to their homes, back to themselves.

Bernadette Conlon OLOLNursing PharmacyOLOL Louise Pamela @ahernemer Conor Hurson Mary Walsh Shanice Vallely 🌻 @hsencca St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) @OlderPersonsSVUH SVUH ED SVUH Trauma Unit caitrionacurtin CUH_HSCP Dr Evelyn Hannon, Consultant Geriatrician Cork University Hospitals presents her project now 'Sip Til Send: The end of prolonged fasting time for hip fracture patients.' The Sip Til Send initiative sees patients able to sip water until they are sent to theatre. To ascertain its effectiveness,

“Driving a group, being able to influence others without even knowing you are doing it, is leadership. If you get all the right things in a leader, then you’ve got gold.” - Ronan O’Gara

Technical gremlins stopped me joining the Stroke Programme HSCP webinar today. HSCPs are an invaluable, integral part of every stage of the Stroke Pathway. Because some are less visible, it doesn’t make them any less valuable. Ciara Breen Prof. Ronan Collins

Dr. Emer Ahern, National Clinical Advisor & Group Lead Older Persons HSE Ireland presents now. She talks about the Clinical Guidelines for care of older adult Major Trauma. "Older adults are not simply people who are older, they are a cohort with different and age specific needs."

rezoomo.com/job/67534/ Come join our wonderful team in CUH! Locum Consultant position working with Orthogeriatrics in CUH available from September for 1 year.

2% of the population (aged over 85) use this amount of hospital bed days because acute illness in this age group is accompanied by a physical and cognitive decline that will persist until remedied. Properly staffed offsite rehabilitation beds would transform our hospitals.