We have updated our End of Life Care Key Messages.
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BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare.
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Photograph of the first page of an article entitled Improving moth care standards in hospitals a call to action
A photograph of the cover of issue 100 of Agenda the magazine of the British Geriatrics Society
Delighted to see this call to action in the BGS magazine. As Speech and Language Therapists we assessing people's mouths every day and constantly advocate for better mouth care at home, in care and in hospital. Great to see this vital and often neglected part of health care getting more coverage
Exciting!! #Dysphagia
Looking through a front windscreen onto a road covered in snow around with trees covered in snow on either side
Trip through a winter wonderland for work today
A view of snowy Aberdeen from an upper floor of the hospital
Today of all days I did a random weekend shift at the big hospital. Due to severe snow I was picked up by a fantastic volunteer 4x4 service and got home via an expert Bus driver and a train that changed its mind and unusually stopped at my town as all the other trains were cancelled.
Introduction to Palliative Care—an open-to-all clinical training course for clinicians from all specialties and professions.
📖 Learn what palliative care is, how it’s delivered, and its impact on quality of life.
https://ow.ly/8svy50VEb8t #hpm #hapc
📜 Today we are launching the Transparent Pledge.
Please read and sign it here: 👉 tinyurl.com/TransparentAction
Transparent Action is a group of parents who want to take action in support of their trans, non-binary and gender diverse loved ones and the wider trans+ community.
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
Poster describing the activities at a Winter Solstice day retreat including yoga, meditation and breathing techniques
So looking forward to my favourite pre-Christmas Chaos activity. It's been a busy, draining and at times challenging year and this is the prefect way to process and move on
the entire debate cis people have about trans people is moronic to start but it’s also a debate most trans people don’t care about, being that if we are viewed as “real women or men” or not. no one gives a fuck. it changes nothing about the reality that transitioning rocks
Robin Thank you for your support of the Trans community. I am sorry that it's come to this as I love the IMC. Take care of yourself
Today is a day we mourn our dead.
And we fight like hell for the living.
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Amid anti-trans politics, today is a day of reflection. A day to mourn those we have all lost.
Each name is a reminder to love and fight for each other, and especially for those most marginalised.
With solidarity, we will build a better world for us all.
81 days!! Clearly not in a hospital where it's much much less.aybe that's in the 'future avenues for research' section
Still buzzing from the excitement of seeing @profaliceroberts.bsky.social in Aberdeen last night. Enthralling from beginning to end. Massive fangirling from me as I have followed her since Time Team days!
Foggy mornings but beautiful autumn colour in Aberdeen
Really enjoyed our Acute Care at Home SLT CEN meeting today. We had presentations on, and discussed, Ultra Rapid response services and using Patient reported outcomes data. Am buzzing with ideas 💡 for our service
@angelapointon.bsky.social, Elaine Hunter and I had the opportunity to talk #dementia, #brainhealth and the role of AHPs to physio students at #RGU today. Lots of engagement and hopefully good feedback.
How wonderful to have a joint meeting with the Welsh AHP dementia forum today. Great discussions about the newly published ADI report about rehabilitation in dementia and it's implications for AHPs
Would really appreciate your thoughts on supervision for SLTs gaining competence in the management of dysphagia post qualification in the UK. If you would be happy to share your thoughts please snap the QR below or use this link forms.office.com/e/ndzqgBFF4u
Absolutely fantastic day at the #RCSLT Scottish hub day. A wee contribution by myself and @sltros.bsky.social with a lightening talk on how we have used data in developing SLT frailty services but really enjoyed brilliant and challenging talks on AI and leadership
Also lots of round houses to be seen on the lower slopes of the hill and a great local museum at the foot
View across the loch to Skye from Meall nah Lolaire
The scary peak of Meall nah Lolaire
A lovely day in Gairloch, I am not a mountain climber and barely tolerate hills, this seemed to be doable but required some actual climbing which was terrifying! But amazing views all the way to Skye
☑️ New research in @Age_and_Ageing
⭐️The 4AT is more than a #delirium tool: a score of ≥1 has an 87% sensitivity for known #dementia in older hospital patients.
➡️ Could assist in identifying dementia in hospital inpatients.
Link below 👇
I was driving along a road in Aberdeen today thinking exactly this, it didn't feel exclusive but inclusive and I hope it feels that way to everyone.
Nooo you are coming to Aberdeen when we are on holiday! (It's the schools October break) Oh well, hopefully you will love it so much you will come back
I see a lot of this in people referred due to swallowing difficulties where no one has explained to the family or the person that this is part of increasing frailty and a trajectory that is predictable.