Mind 5 years ago when Rangers and Celtic went full time and everyone was saying that'd be Glasgow City done and fading away? Bet those people feel right silly about now

Glasgow City SWPL Cup champions, for the first time in 11 years.

That’s a great piece of writing. Thank you for sharing it.

Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michele: The disease of "at risk" - The BMJ Caitjan Gainty and Grazia De Michelle explore modern medicine's complicity in creating uncertainty and its unwillingness, once created, to address it.

@caitjan.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on the same issue a while ago. Glad to see more voices adding to the debate.
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Indeed!

Care Creates… Safe, Joyful Homes

“We feel he is safe and cared for with dignity and fun too… it has a homely and positive feel when visiting.” – Friend of a resident, Bayview Care Home Meallmore

This is what good care should feel like for residents and families.

#CareCreates

Let’s make #socialcare and #humanrights the heart of the coming election to #Holyrood. #SP26, #ScotParl, #ScotElextion. #CareCreates @scottishcare.bsky.social

Making care completely transactional misses so many opportunities to improve not only people’s lives, but also to avoid their unnecessary decline and suffering.

#MedSky
#SocialCare

I’m not religious at all, but I rather like this Leo bloke…

Pic of Arthur’s Seat hill in the distance with text saying “Now for fun, no longer for fundraising “

First run for a few days, and now for fun, not fundraising!

(Though the link is still open at shorturl.at/qIWTx)

It was very windy today in South Edinburgh, but brightening up nicely.

@nhslothcharity.bsky.social

You are completely right.

Haha, true!

Thank you! My Mum doesn’t listen to my advice!

Haha! True!

I’ll be closing the fundraiser in the next few days, but I’ll always remember the generosity of so many people, including many of you here that I’ve not even met in real life.

With Gift Aid, you’ve donated over £4k to @nhslothcharity.bsky.social - that’s amazing!

Thank you all!

shorturl.at/Bf48S

Hospital admissions are still often very appropriate. It’s the “getaway plan” that is often hard to pull off…

Oh dear! Looks like a typo in my copy & pasting!

Understood. Happy to have an offline chat if any advice from a geriatrician is helpful!

Though I think you have a lot of common sense yourself!

Indeed.

People forget the vast majority of care homes are businesses with the prime aim of making money. Care is secondary.

Yes, indeed.

Social Care as Prevention: the quiet revolution hiding in plain sight - Scottish Care There is a habit in Scotland, born of compassion, yes, but also of institutional muscle-memory, to treat social care as what happens after life has gone wrong. We reach for […]

So many truths in this blog.

Have a read. Here’s the link again:

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One for #MedSky and #PublicHealthSky folks too.

#PublicHealth
#Prevention

• Preventing accelerated frailtyis about nutrition, movement, social connection and dignity, the things social care can enable every day, if it is designed as a relational service rather than a timed transaction.

• Preventing carer breakdown is as fundamental as preventing a heart attack; without respite, advice and practical help, the system loses its most precious and uncosted workforce.

• Preventing avoidable admissions is often about continuity: someone who knows you, sees the early signs, coordinates quickly, and steadies the situation before it becomes an
emergency.

Some good tips from @drdmacaskill.bsky.social on where social care belongs, not downstream, but upstream (🧵)

• Preventing falls is not primarily about a poster campaign. It is about home adaptations, strength and balance support, medication prompts, and time enough for a worker to notice a change.

Social Care as Prevention: the quiet revolution hiding in plain sight - Scottish Care There is a habit in Scotland, born of compassion, yes, but also of institutional muscle-memory, to treat social care as what happens after life has gone wrong. We reach for […]

This is a good way of looking at social care.

It’s an investment, not a burden.

Create a “preventative infrastructure that stops crisis becoming destiny”.

From @drdmacaskill.bsky.social - can I recommend following him for more regular wisdom and astute analysis?

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There are very real practical asks of candidates in the upcoming election. Here are some of our #humanrights asks in our @scottishcare.bsky.social #manifesto. #CareCreates #ScotParl #ScotElection - what do our parties say ?

Social Care as Prevention: the quiet revolution hiding in plain sight - Scottish Care There is a habit in Scotland, born of compassion, yes, but also of institutional muscle-memory, to treat social care as what happens after life has gone wrong. We reach for […]

#SocialCare as #Prevention: the quiet revolution hiding in plain sight. #health #wellbeing #publichealth #reform #Scotland.

scottishcare.org/news/social-...

Agreed.