🚨New Blog - From seminars to student mentoring, Dr Gaia Brezzo discusses who really handles the 'housework' in academia. Find out more about the impact of gender on these tasks - read or listen! Dr. Gaia Brezzo

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Is this person in front of you sick or frail? It takes a bit of time to make the effort to find out. Hopefully we’ve explained how, and why this is important.

Love this idea!!!

'If health inequalities are increasing, inequalities in society are increasing, and dealing with these inequalities is urgently needed.'

Dr Lucinda Hiam, Bob Klaber, Dr Annabel, and Sir Michael Marmot call for action to tackle the UK's social determinants of health bmj.com/content/385/bm…

University College London UCL is seeking a Research Assistant to support it's new Blood Biomarker Challenge Project working with Ashvini Keshavan & Jonathan Schott

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You can watch the excellent webinar of the Frailty Seminar Series 2023-2024. Emiel O. Hoogendijk, PhD, MSc from VU University Medical Center,
The Netherlands. presented 'Recent Developments in Frailty Epidemiology' youtu.be/zBZpEUySjRg

Frailty is everyone's responsibility & it's everywhere .
Thanks to IMT, most trainees get 6/12 to experience it now British Geriatrics Society

Despite remarkable advances in medicine, millions of people are still denied health care.

“Health must not be treated as a luxury”, says Volker Türk @ UN Human Rights. The right to health is a duty held by all states under international human rights law. hubs.li/Q02s4ff00

Read this recent Age_and_Ageing study exploring whether #frailty at midlife predicts mortality and levels of biomarkers associated with #Alzheimers disease and related dementias and neurodegeneration by early older age. doi.org/10.1093/ageing…

CPR is not a treatment for #ordinarydying . Every instance of futile CPR - which is what will happen if nobody has sorted out the protection of a DNACPR for someone whose life is coming to an end - is a tragedy. Please, doctors, nurses, patients, families - #havetheconversation .

“The highest poverty rate among adults in this country is now among adults aged 60 and over who are heading towards retirement which indicates the worst may yet be to come.” says our Chief Executive, Carole Easton.

Read more about the #SpringBudget2024 ageing-better.org.uk/news/last-week…

What an inspiration to interview Alex Rotas for British Geriatrics Society
Her incredibly powerful visuals of older adults in sport. Her mission to encourage us to rethink the ageing trajectory.
What should we be hoping for in older age?
‘Exercise is not a luxury. It is the key to healthy ageing’

A PhD student at Lancaster University, Claude Chidiac, is doing some research on the experiences, needs and preferences of the LGBTQ+ community who are living with dementia. 
Find out more here: 
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Yay, Dr Jolie Keemink (she/her) !!! 👏👏👏Changing the world!

“Societal trust and regard for the nursing profession positions nurses as genuine leaders in the emerging interdisciplinary field of planetary health.”
Planetary health and person‐centred healthcare practice - Tyagi - Journal of Advanced Nursing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Assisted dying and dementia. juneandrews.net/dementia-and-o…

Significant Psychosocial Influence in Frail People Living with HIV Independent of Frailty Instrument Used. Abdul-Aziz, S.A. et al. J Frailty Aging 11, 190–198 (2022). doi.org/10.14283/jfa.2…

Just read Ajantha Abey's insightful blog on iPSCs in dementia research. Truly amazed by the potential of these cells to transform future treatments. Although they sound harder for care for that Sparky!

#DementiaAwareness #StemCellInnovation

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Love this! Sadly see this very rarely though

'While multiple #frailty screens are available little is known about which variables are important & how best to facilitate prompt ED screening. To understand core requirements of #frailty screening we conducted this study.'

Read the Age_and_Ageing paper. doi.org/10.1093/ageing…