😨 Consequences of #delirium 🏥 Most delirium is present on admission; 1/3 of incident delirium can be prevented. Much of the delirium workload is about treatment. ⭐ Need to do more to limit severity & duration Recent general review: nature.com/articles/s4157…

Impact of a hospital-based special care unit on behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people living with dementia academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Improving dementia care in hospital - 'Clinically significant reductions in BPSD and psychotropic administration were associated with SCU care relative to standard ward care' Frederick Graham Australian Frailty Network UQ Centre for Health Services Research Prof Ruth E Hubbard

Approximately 30% of adults aged 65 years or older experience at least 1 fall annually. This article summarizes a 2022 clinical practice guideline on falls prevention and management in older adults from the World Falls Guidelines Initiative. ja.ma/3U5MsUK

Age is not just a numbers game!

In our new preprint, we measured frailty trajectories in the years preceding dementia to better understand the direction of that relationship. We report observational evidence that frailty increases dementia risk independently of reverse causality. researchsquare.com/article/rs-431…

This was a collaborative effort of the DEMON Network's Frailty Special Interest Group.

🎉The AFN team at UQ Centre for Health Services Research has been awarded a NHMRC Partnership Grant for the project “Derivation, Validation and Implementation of a Digital Frailty Index for Acute Care Settings in Queensland”. Prof Ruth E Hubbard Adrienne Young AdvAPD Leila Shafiee Hanjani David Ward

👏Congratulations to #CHSR Australian Frailty Network Program Lead Prof Ruth E Hubbard - awarded an NHMRC Partnership Project grant for her team's research toward a Digital #Frailty Index for Acute Care Settings in Queensland. UQ Medicine UQ Health UQ News

Wahooooo!!!! Well deserved! We are proud of you!

Great to see research from #CHSR's Australian Frailty Network mentioned at the American Delirium Society conference overnight! Congratulations Prof Ruth E Hubbard David Ward Emily Gordon 🌎 UQ Medicine The BMJ #UQresearch #frailty #delirium

Study found frailty accelerates up to 9 years before dementia onset and is a key early marker. Frailty was linked to higher dementia risk even when measured years before dementia onset and may represent a target for prevention efforts. ja.ma/4hLFake

Excellent study led by ⁦Australian Frailty Network⁩ researcher ⁦David Ward⁩. Reinforces how important it is to prevent/ slow progression of frailty in community dwellers! ⁦Emily Gordon⁩ ⁦Kenneth Rockwood⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-11-1…

In almost 30,000 participants of 4 cohort studies over 20+ years of follow-up, we found that #frailty was a strong risk factor for #dementia and accumulated rapidly from 9 years before dementia onset. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… UQ Medicine 1/3

UQ Medicine I am grateful for the media coverage our work has received, particularly the excellent article by Molly Slattery ABC News (abc.net.au/news/2024-11-1…) and the related radio feature: abc.net.au/listen/program… 2/3

UQ Medicine ABC News It was a collaborative effort requiring brilliant co-authors Jonny Flint Isabelle Foote @m_canevelli Dr. Lindsay Wallace Emily Gordon Prof David Llewellyn @Janice_Ranson Prof Ruth E Hubbard Kenneth Rockwood (and others not on X) and supporting research networks DEMON Network and Australian Frailty Network 3/3

Frailty & dementia in "Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39527039/ Bruno Vellas Johns Hopkins Frailty Science #FrailtyFighter Global Frailty Network Team Frailty @uhmbt CRE_Frailty Cognitive Frailty Network CFN Australian Frailty Network Acute Frailty Network frailtynexus

Great to see that our research has been of interest.

Prof Ruth E Hubbard opened ABC Radio National Life Matters last Thurs with a particularly eloquent intro to #frailty - rounding out a great week of media coverage for our Australian Frailty Network team's research linking frailty & #dementia: bit.ly/40LDpNL UQ Medicine David Ward

It was terrific speaking to ABC News and ABC Brisbane for our JAMA Neurology #frailty #dementia paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… -TV (2 min) youtu.be/d3bsUawSoB4?si… -Radio (9 min) sndup.net/4t4ds -Print abc.net.au/news/2024-11-1… UQ Medicine Australian Frailty Network DEMON Network