Day 16 #AdventAgeing Important themes in my 2024 included: dementia, guidelines & policy. A triangulation of the three was working with the team SIGN Guidelines on the new #dementia guideline for Scotland Summary published in Age_and_Ageing academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Day 17 #AdventAgeing As NRS and NIHR RDN Ageing lead, a New Year resolution is to build capacity in UK ageing research. Want to know more about the great stuff already happening? Watch our NRS Ageing webinars, and look out for a new series in 2025. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

The Brain Health ARC is excited to announce a special one-off webinar with Dr Yaohua Chen! 🌟 Join us in January to hear from Chen Yaohua, Associate Professor at Université de Lille, on brain health definitions 🧠💡 Register here ➡️ bit.ly/41GqJs6

Day 18 #AdventAgeing Frohe Weihnachten Feliz Navidad Joyeux Noël Our group’s research is proudly European Like our work in the pan-Europe Res-Q+ project. Read some of our outputs here: resqplus.eu/publications Much more to come in 2025...

🌟Research Award Winner: Dr. Peter Hanlon 🌟 Dr. Peter Hanlon, a GP and researcher, focuses on managing long-term conditions in older adults. He's shaping the future of frailty and chronic illness in older adults in a primary care setting. #BGSRisingStar bit.ly/3Dnu8ln

Thank you so much British Geriatrics Society for this #BGSRisingStar award! It’s a hugely exciting time to be doing research to better support people living with frailty and long-term conditions. Very grateful for the award, and to the many who have supported me to far.

Day 19 #AdventAgeing Having a quick scroll through X before wrapping the prezzies? katie gallacher and I used twitter posts to explore opinions on #stroke recovery How very meta ! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Chris White (right) is on top form after bouncing back from a stroke in April thanks to superb care from Dr Terry Quinn💙 (left) UofG SCMH and stroke team at Glasgow Royal Infirmary NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Chris has returned to work Mental Health Foundation Scotland and looks forward to 2025! Merry Christmas one and all!

Day 20 #AdvertAgeing One of the best things about 2024 was growing our UofG SCMH research group, welcoming new Senior Clinical Lecturer Alan Cameron. Alan has an interest in all things #AFib. Here is a nice paper on biomarkers for #AFib after stroke neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…

Day 21 #AdventAgeing Healthcare can’t exist in isolation from politics 2024 saw our research group featured in the press, eg this piece in The Times Scotland "reasons for Scotland's stroke care performance are complex, but not insoluble" tinyurl.com/yc57dm8a StrokeAssocScotland

Day 22 #AdventAgeing 2024 was a good year for scientific meetings. I enjoyed speaking at @ESOStroke EuGMS - European Geriatric Medicine Society Scottish Dementia Research Consortium (SDRC) and others but a talk I gave UK Stroke Forum generated the biggest response Here is a slide from that one - we are NOT broken

Day 23 #AdventAgeing These posts have been reflecting on 2024 activity, but a lot of 2024 work was for events in 2025 Like the return of the Scottish Dementia Research Consortium (SDRC) Brain Health ARC webinar series Register for the first one here: bit.ly/41GqJs6

One more day of #AdventAgeing What festive gift awaits...

Day 24 #AdventAgeing Last day, and my Christmas gift to the world is that I am leaving X (twitter) I am sure Elon Musk is devastated For 2025 I will start a new SoMe life on bluesky Maybe see you there? Dr Terry Quinn💙.bsky.social Brain Health ARC.bsky.social

Our next webinar welcomes Bethany Whiteside, Senior Lecturer & Doctoral Degrees Coordinator at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland! ✨🩰 Dr Whiteside specialises in the field of Dance for Health, working with dancers living with dementia, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis 🧠 ↪️ bit.ly/4h3YsjY