It’s our 1st birthday tomorrow!! Who’s coming for cake? 🎂🎈🐏 Acute Frailty Network

What a great day on AFU - putting the Tea in MDT. Cake and companionship to celebrate our birthday. Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate Rachael Stray Charly Gill Russell Nightingale @EmmaNunez15

Thank you for bringing us extra joy today! We’re looking forward to the bells tmrw 😘

Wow! What a way to follow our 1st birthday. Congratulations to everyone who has made our ward a success - including HDFT Planning Department HDFT Pharmacy Team 🌟 HDFT Frailty Education Faculty HDFTpallcare Harrogate Integrated Facilities Harrogate ACP's HarrogateEldMed Harrogate & District Adult SLT The Fundamentals of Care Team- HDFT 💙🌈 @StrayRachael Emma Edgar 💙 & ARCH

We’re looking forward to being part of this study! @laurenralston2

Great to have you next door! We’ve missed you

If you or someone you know is living with a palliative diagnosis or are approaching the last year of life – we can support you. Today we are launching the Harrogate End of Life Planning and Support Service. To find out more, go to tinyurl.com/4x7r4km7

Our #Pharmacy Professionals Group has launched on #WorldPharmacistsDay. Frailty, pharmacy, medicines management and deprescribing are increasingly relevant in older adults' care, and this group aims to support professionals involved in this area of care. bgs.org.uk/pharmacy-profe…

Over the next 12 months we’ll be sharing our members’ stories about why they chose to work in older people's healthcare and encouraging others to consider this career path. #ChooseGeriatrics bit.ly/47JlgBr

Updated NICE guideline recommends occupational therapists, or other trained professionals to undertake hazard assessments to prevent falls in older people and people 50+ at higher risk, aiming to reduce hospital admissions. Learn more: nice.org.uk/news/articles/…

Our acute frailty fellow, was presented with a Making a Difference award - Congratulations Luke!

We also celebrated another Making a Difference award a few weeks ago - congratulations to John, one of our amazing CSWs

Overseas care workers contribute so much to social care. Making it harder to get staff for care homes and home care will have knock-on effects on older people's health, wellbeing and independence British Geriatrics Society

Jugdeep Dhesi Andrew Clegg British Geriatrics Society Tony Avery Also, we should be routinely warning patients before starting medications with significant anticholinergic burden. Some increase risk of dementia by 20%. That is significant. Patients have a right to be warned about this so they can make informed decisions

Huge thanks to Doctors’ Association UK for inviting me to give the closing keynote of the Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference. I spoke on a subject dear to my heart - the insidious "kindwashing" of UK medicine. Is it really a doctor's formal duty - as the now GMC insists - to be "kind"? 🧵

If you’re a health or care professional (or even non professional) looking after older people then you’ve found your tribe British Geriatrics Society … loads of resources, best practice guidance, education, events. Come and join one of the biggest MDTs in the world 👇and help shape the future

IMHO dying is not as bad as you think. Powerful piece from Doctor Kathryn Mannix on why we need to talk about death.