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Surely I can’t be expected to remember the number of my morning coffee order before I’ve drunk aforementioned drink 😭

Today we’re launching #ChooseGeriatrics – our new campaign which celebrates the variety and rewards of working in older people’s healthcare. Find out more and how to get involved! 👇 bit.ly/47JlgBr

A rare time that I agree with Wes.

We're less than 3 weeks away from G4J 2024! Visit bgs.org.uk/24G4J for more details and to see the full line up of speakers and sessions in the programme. Registration only £30 for the whole day! #BGSConf @ElderlyMedEd

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"...it is healthy to start conversations around death, and the realities of the ageing process such as reduced mobility, cognitive impairment, and incontinence." Dr Liz Charalambous RN 💙 shares her thoughts on Swedish death cleaning in the latest BGS blog. bgs.org.uk/blog/the-benef…

Cup of tea in hand, ready for day two of #bgsconf from home! 💗

Data says levels of ACP in patients with PD low (0-25%) despite 50-60% of patients being interested in it -- demonstrating an unmet need in future planning leading to unnecessary fear and worry #BGSconf

Surprising that only 5% of existing advance care plans in the PRIME trial participants living with PD covered artificial nutrition -- good to reflect on the need to ensure our ACP is disease specific enough to be successful #BGSconf

Sarah Combes Dr Sarah Combes RN talks advance care planning challenges with the words of patients: Key takeaways: FAMILY- most older people know what they want but don’t tell their family START with living well now and work the conversation backwards. #BGSconf British Geriatrics Society #frailty

If agitation does not resolve with nonpharmacological measures, deprescribing, analgesia and laxatives, you can consider a trial of an SSRI such as sertraline, particularly if eg the Cornell score is suggestive of depression. Mirtazapine is associated with worse outcomes #BGSconf

As a doctor caring for hip fracture patients, I'm often struck by what a special thing it is that we've created systems where dozens of professionals with diverse expertise come together in purpose-built facilities to help someone who's fallen and broken their hip. Relieving

Hospitals meticulously record sodium levels and ECGs. But many still don’t record delirium, even though it triples mortality risk. This is like Victorian times, when 9 year olds cleaning chimneys was the norm. In the future we will regard this industrial-scale neglect of

"In her late 80s, she was still becoming" - really moving words from Anne Murray, on our capacity to grow throughout the whole of our lives. So important to challenge ageist assumptions so that we stop the reduction of older people to just their physical selves #BGSConf

A word of warning from Ruth - is use of overly blunt-instrument frailty tools precluding transplant for those whose 'frailty' may actually be fully reversible with transplant? And where CGA identifies a need for prehab, will this population (be able to) engage with it? #BGSconf

Kenneth Rockwood reminds us that frailty screening =/= frailty assessment, and 'frail vs non-frail' is an unhelpful dichotomy - we need to avoid the trap of seeing 'frailty', disengaging brain and pulling the CKM lever, but actually use it to guide how we help our patients #BGSconf