#Delirium treatment is complex. ✔️ Here is DELIRIUM 8 - a set of 8 key domains to consider when looking after a person with delirium.

Check this video out. This is so interesting. Do you love your job?

Are you ensuring patients have every opportunity to demonstrate capacity? Do you know where the spare hearing aid batteries are kept in your department?

I am that weirdo that then precedes to do stairs & carry chair for time 😂 I’d set a timer and everything 🏃‍♀️

Collaboration ("performing a variety of synchronous & asynchronous acts that are in tension & harmony with each other") takes a lot of time & energy so it needs to deliver outcomes. Research report into what makes people & teams collaborate well: figma.com/collaboration-… By Figma

We’ve come a long way from the old COVID London mutual aid days! Super proud to work with Paul Simpson again on this episode! I hope others find it as useful as I did!

One of the best threads I’ve seen talking about this. Stop pointing staff to self help resources whilst not considering how the system can help.

Shivering wrapped in blankets today thinking about how in TWO WEEKS I’ll be walking in 30 degree heat in the Saharan Desert! 🐪 P.s any sponsorship donations are very much appreciated!

it’s a chicken or the egg question isn’t it- is the fall related to the 6 month mortality or the long lie? Or both? But the papers 1981… an update would be fab. But how would we do it? Could you compare mortality over 6months for ED vs URT? Lots of confounders too 🤷‍♀️

Why do good hair days always happen on the days I’m not doing anything?

Weekend reading for #BPSD re-looking at the #DICE principles The BMJ #dementia

World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Hello hello 👋 #IWD2023 is nearly here, and so are companies' cut-and-paste platitudes. And once again we're bringing you the data to see whose support for #InternationalWomensDay is genuine, and who's still got work to do. Here's a reminder of how it works ⬇️ (1/8)

📢OUT NOW📢 'Joining the dots: A blueprint for preventing and managing #frailty in older people' has now been published! This report shows what good-quality age-attuned integrated care for older people looks like. Find out more here bgs.org.uk/Blueprint #BGSBlueprint

“There’s nothing wrong with adding a bit of cream or butter to food” (You heard it here at the #BGSconf!) But there are other options too. It’s interesting to note how many of my favourite foods are on the list of nutritionally dense food!

🚨🚑 "We should assess all patients >65 years of age for frailty" - #rapidrecap frailty and the 5 frailty syndromes. Contributed to by Sara Harris (she/her)🚑🚨

We are so proud of our colleague Hannah for this poem inspired by a patient she worked with recently. Hannah is currently working with our local virtual wards to provide expert frailty input. #Frailty #HospitalatHome #notjustapatient #personcentredcare

I'm not an expert in much, but I do have quite a lot of experience in treating exertional heat illness. Below my experience learning distilled into a Twitter thread.

We developed this from some of our podcast episodes a couple of years ago with Georgie it's a free book on looking after people with cognitive impairment for you and your team. Just follow this link :) buff.ly/3Ps5KPQ