We've published the final standards for Ageing and Frailty. The standards aim to promote positive, healthy and active ageing. They cover older people who may experience frailty as they age and apply in all settings. Follow the link in the comments to read the standards.

A great opportunity for care home staff and staff working within care homes to access training on MUST and MUST Step 5. Link below to join. NHSGGC - Care Home Collaborative Scottish Care Care Inspectorate

#ChooseGeriatrics Profile: Lucy Pollock Lucy Pollock says: “It’s full of interesting science; you must know your medicine inside and out. Then you work out if what you *could* do is what you *should* do for patients. It’s also a fantastic team sport.” British Geriatrics Society 👉🏻Repost

More than 36,000 people – nearly 100 every day – are coming to A&E when they could be treated faster and more appropriately elsewhere. Let's keep A&E for life-threatening and urgent conditions only. nhsggc.scot/your-health/ri… #ThinkABCbeforeA&E

What a morning Naomi Naismith hearing about QI projects demonstrating #occupationaltherapy value in PICU. Learning about CYP evidence based work and feedback from a European conference. All with Xmas jumpers! Fiona Smith NHSGGC Specialist Children's Services MandyF_OT

Today our care home dietetic team wanted to highlight their 5th webinar to refresh or update care home staff knowledge of MUST and MUST Step 5 👇🏼 This will be held on 28.1.25 2-3.15pm👏🏽

Our new TILDA Gerontological Society of America (GSA) paper demonstrates the potential health benefits of regular dog walking in later life: - Better mobility - 40% less Falls - 20% less Fear of Falling pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39798070/ Rose Anne Kenny Amanda Lavan TCD Medical Gerontology

Giving my thanks to all MH nurses working in East Dun HSCP and across NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde they do a fabulous job everyday and make such a huge difference to the lives of the people they work with josephine stewart Anne harvie

"Let's Talk about Dementia" 1st April at Woodhill Evangelical Church. This event by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde & Ceartas Advocacy will bring people together to talk about dementia & Allied Health Professionals. This event is open to people with a diagnosis of dementia, their family and carers

This is one of the common questions we get asked - so we made a simple poster to answer 💪 Download the full PDF and more resources from: hcpc-uk.org/cpd-week #CPDWeek2025

Well done 👏🏾 😍

Yey! what a team 🥳❤️👏And a real treat to be given two hour long sessions to talk about #polypharmacy #frailty #WhatMattersMost We did quizzes, looked at evidence, talked #ShowMeYourMedicines #BRAN #ChoosingWisely and unsung heroes. I❤️pharmacists

The care home dietetic team have developed a mealtime poster which can be found here Mealtime Experience Poster - NHSGGC nhsggc.scot/your-health/ca…

Great to see British Geriatrics Society⁩ recognising the invaluable skills of Nursing and AHP’s in older peoples healthcare. A multidisciplinary workforce at a variety of skill levels is essential if older people are to access the care they need, where & when they need💜 bgs.org.uk/bgs-publishes-…

Really proud to see my 'My Movement Board' idea - created back in 2022 after a British Geriatrics Society #BGSConf workshop - and my #EDDM work being used for such great outcomes and positive patient experience! Well done Latha shankar and all involved! 👏🏼 💙

With the increase in our older population we need to get this right across primary and secondary care

Connie Williamson, East Dun HSCP Macmillan Cancer Support Improving Cancer Journey (ICJ) Lead, attended a Royal reception & spoke to His Majesty King Charles III about the work of the ICJ team supporting people affected by cancer in East Dun, including in HMP Low Moss. #VeryProud

In 2016, our journal, Age_and_Ageing, published the Electronic Frailty Index. It was highly influential and is used across the NHS to identify frailty within a population. This revolutionary has been updated, with the Electronic Frailty Index 2 (eFI2)! buff.ly/d2K5abr