PLEASE LISTEN 🧵 This is Prof Ronan Collins Dr.Ronan collins (National Clinical Lead Stroke) scathing criticism of Dept of Health/HSE Ireland treatment of 850,000 people in Ireland living with neurology/neurodegenerative conditions and the moratorium on recruitment …

King's College London Louise @ahernemer Conor Hurson Pamela Cris Ojeda-Thies Shanice Vallely 🌻 Mary Walsh British Geriatrics Society UCL Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit (HSE NCCA) Dr Emer Ahern, Clinical Geriatric Lead of the Irish Hip Fracture Database presents on how we measure what matters to patients and how the hip fracture pathway has been re-designed to be age friendly. "Older adults are not simply people who are older, they are a cohort with

Congratulations to Dr. Conor Judge the overall winner of HIHI/EI Clinical Innovation Awards 2023 with his product (AI-BP) an AI Hypertension Management Platform Department of Health Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment HSE Ireland Enterprise Ireland Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway saoltagroup NHS England Health Innovation Hub Ireland RCSI

Lovely talk of risk factors for severe and non severe #stroke by Caitriona Reddin at the Association of Physicians, GB & Ireland from NUI Galway Medicine Conference Irish Gerontology Young Geris (irony intended) British Geriatrics Society

The DGM session now hears from Emily Buckley with Geriatric Medicine Competencies Required By All Hospital Doctors Caring For Older Adults: A Scoping Review buff.ly/4dWeyuA #BGSconf

Great presentation by Aidan Stankard today at #IASGalway2024 on our systems probing simulations for older adult care @ICPOPIreland saoltagroup HSE Community Healthcare West . Well done on ICAPSS and National Simulation Office on a fantastic conference!

Huge congratulations 🎊 to our wonderful colleague Dr Aoife Leahy on her successful PhD viva defence today. Aoife was examined by Karen McCreesh & the foremost International expert on frailty Kenneth Rockwood 🇨🇦 📸 with supervisors Rose Galvin and Prof Mgt O'connor @ULHospitals

I was honoured to have been part of it. This has the makings of one of those few PhD theses that can change practice: an RCT of frailty screening + CGA in Emergency. Simon Conroy Daniel Davis Sam Karen Nicholls Don Melady

Navigating the future of Alzheimer’s care in Ireland - a service model for disease-modifying therapies in small and medium-sized healthcare systems | BMC Health Services Research | Full Text bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🎧New IGS Podcast🎧 For the latest episode, Edel McDaid talked to John Cooke about gerontological simulation. Listen here ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/48I0pn… There will be a sim based session at this year's IGS ASM - register➡️ irishgerontology.com National Simulation Office NDTP WICOP Sim

Early start up of virtual care provided to COPD patients in Galway. 16 episodes of care provided on the COPD virtual ward in GUH in first 10 weeks, with 110 bed days saved. Maith sibh Dr Dr Sinead Walsh, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Emma Burke, cANP Respiratory, & all the team

Delighted to welcome our first mother-child pair into the EMERGE follow up study! We’re evaluating the impact of GDM and early metformin use in pregnancy on the long term outcomes for mum and child (photo shared with permission) Diabetes Collaborative Clinical Trial Network University of Galway CMNHS

The beautiful Iamnumber17.ie exhibition is on in the Orbsen building until the end of July. Did you know that 1 in 17 people will be affected by rare disease at some point in their life? Come and get to know the inspiring stories of the 17 change makers RARE Ireland

An absolute pleasure to have REO for HSE Ireland Dublin & SE visit WICOP Sim yesterday. We had a great chat about integrated care generally but also the critical role that interprofessional education must play in the future success of these services National Simulation Office Irish Gerontological Society

#ESCCongress ➡️what’s new with #BP guidelines?? #MedTwitter #CardioTwitter #CardioX ❤️ new category of 'Elevated BP' with BP 120-139/70-89 mmHg. ❤️ new systolic BP treatment target range of 120-129 mmHg for most patients receiving BP-lowering meds ❤️ pragmatic

Please please engage with this: for your patients, their families, your own parents and for ourselves as we age! I’m going to get a poster for clinic and spread the word

Great to have such Irish gerontological input into these important guidelines for healthier ageing through better blood pressure control. Michelle Canavan

I am privileged to work with such fantastic people. This initiative showing our specialist team working with primary care shows how we are all part of the integrated pathway for older persons 🤝🏼Minimising stressful journeys for older adults-CGA and intervention closer to home.