⏱️ You have just over two weeks left to apply for the newly created role of Investment Manager - the deadline is Friday 8 May. Find the full job description and how to apply here: vivensafoundation.org.uk/about-us/vac...
#InvestmentJobs #CharityJobs
Best practice assessment and management of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in older adults. academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
Read more at: newcastlebrc.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
@nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social has launched REVITALiSE, the first platform trial for sarcopenia. We'll test up to five interventions in one flexible trial. First up: fisetin! Great early response already, with home based screening making participation easy for older people. @newcastleage.bsky.social
Graphic showing stages of life on the x axis, types of prevention from primordial to quaternary on the y axis, and classes of intervention mapped to prevention and lifecourse stage
New from our MLTC cross-NIHR collaboration:
A national framework to improve how we prevent, treat, and reduce the burden of multiple long‑term conditions. Now out in BMC Medicine: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The NHS desperately needs them. The doctors in the pipeline need them too (as otherwise many will leave). Performative stupidity. And with applications open in a few weeks, this could be hugely disruptive at a time when we are about to be hit by shortages of fuel, helium etc.
🎉 Congratulations to our very own Professor Miles Witham on his appointment as an NIHR Senior Investigator!
This award recognises Miles’ leadership of translational ageing research and his commitment to supporting the next generation of researchers.
www.nihr.ac.uk/newly-appoin...
I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.
I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Agree. We have the same challenge with sarcopenia - we need to measure grip strength, not use AI proxy measures.
6.7% incidence increasing LoS 5+ days. Plus other adverse outcomes. Only slightly alarming… #ansky
BEPOP wave 4 is OPEN for business! Help improve your team's practice by joining! Express an interest here: tinyurl.com/BEPOPWave4
Our CEO Katy opened the @housinglin.bsky.social conference in Newcastle today, talking about our SHAPE Exchange partnership. Our Trustee and Chair for the SHAPE Advisory Group @profroseg.bsky.social spoke about the provision of housing for older people in the NE.
#HLINconf2026
New from the ADMISSION programme: our analysis of NICE guidelines shows that MLTC are not adequately considered in condition-specific guidelines.
📄 Read: bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/...
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Thank you @gerisoc.bsky.social for The Kate Granger Poster Prize at the Geriatrics for Juniors conference 2025 for dedication to improving standards of care for older people! #BGSconf
@pops-sup.bsky.social @nhselect.bsky.social @jkdhesi.bsky.social @jsmhoughton.bsky.social @lbeishon.bsky.social
Dr Maria Panourgia
We’d like to introduce Dr Maria Panourgia as the new #NHFD orthogeriatrics clinical lead elect👏
Maria is a consultant orthogeriatrician whose leadership and clinical practice focuses on orthogeriatrics, fragility fractures and falls prevention.
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Professor Mumtaz Patel
Professor Mumtaz Patel joins @thelancet.com podcast to discuss the urgent challenges facing the UK medical workforce & training. From staff shortages & career development to clinical academia and ensuring the voice of resident doctors is heard loud and clear.
🎧Listen now: ow.ly/1FJ350XSkL0
Thank you Sue for your leadership over the last few years, both of Vivensa and across the broader ageing research landscape. You will be missed by all of us at the BGS, our AGE Research Group and NIHR Newcastle BRC, and colleagues across the UK. Enjoy your retirement!
🏆Honoured to win the Dorothy Robson prize for #PalliativeMedicine at @hyms.ac.uk for an abstract
-from my #PhD research on #Inequalities in access to #PalliativeCare in lung disease
- thank you ☺️ 🫁
@wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social
@jonathankoffman.bsky.social @flissmurtagh.bsky.social
Proud supervisor moment! Our PhD student Florence Gerakios won Best Oral Presentation at the 20th European Delirium Association Conference!
Her talk on delirium phenomenology + subtypes in Parkinson’s (DELIRIUM-PD) was outstanding. Well deserved!
#Delirium #Parkinsons
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Liz Orton introduces FLEXI study about implementation of FAME - physical activity programme for #olderpeople @gerisoc #bgsconf @arc-em
Woman at lectern talking about falls prevention in front of slide presentation
Ruth McCullagh presents implementation of falls prevention (FAME) across Ireland - different levels of co-design; define strategic implementation, meso-level codesign & local micro-codesign #bgsconf @gerisoc.bsky.social
Man gives lecture on social determinants of ageing in front of a screen showing schematic of ageing mechanisms
Cathal McCrory presents keynote #BGSconf on social aspects of ‘hallmarks of ageing’ - & his research: The Irish Longitudinal study of Ageing (TILDA) introduced by
@jkdhesi.bsky.social president of @gerisoc.bsky.social tilda.tcd.ie
@graceinvaders.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @clairedow1.bsky.social
📰Weekend read!
BSRA & Dutch Society for Research on Ageing sign collaboration agreement of
1. Mutural speaker exchange
2. Reciprocal meeting benefits
3. Joint policy work
4. Joint initiatives
5. Future plans, watch this space...
Read more - bsra.org.uk/dusra-collab...
Front cover of Agenda magazine, a British Geriatrics Society publication.
Article on how to bridge to 'know do' gap. By Victoria Keevil and Emma Vardy.
Glad I had a read before recycling!
Some great articles in latest issue of @gerisoc.bsky.social Agenda on research including older people.
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Through the purple door today for BGS Trustees Board meeting. @gerisoc.bsky.social
Our #ResearchCapacity Development Lead, Dr Catherine Dotchin, and her colleague Dr John Steer delivered an interactive and well-received session to F2 doctors recently, showcasing opportunities to get involved in #research.
