'If an older adult attends a frailty-attuned ED, #frailtyscreening can be rapidly undertaken by specialist multidisciplinary teams, working collaboratively to provide comprehensive care. This model can reduce ED reattendance or hospital admission.' bgs.org.uk/blog/getting-t…

'World #Delirium Day is an excellent opportunity for us to take stock and see how our understanding of delirium has progressed to date but also to do our bit to raise awareness and understanding of this condition outside of healthcare settings.' bgs.org.uk/blog/world-del…

Position statement on asymptomatic patients with head injury who are taking anticoagulants endorsed by Royal College of Emergency Medicine Association of Ambulance Chief Executives British Geriatrics Society SBNS UK Hospital at Home Society

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There is an uneven distribution of #geriatricians across the UK, with urban areas typically being better served. This is despite non-metropolitan areas being more likely to have ageing populations. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

'Without rehabilitation older people being discharged from hospital experience further deterioration of their health. On average 15% of older people being discharged from hospital are readmitted within 28 days.'

Supporting #RightToRehab via #BGSblueprint bgs.org.uk/Blueprint

Free to read: 15 key pieces of research on syncope in older people. Increasingly important given the overlap with falls. Awareness of causes of syncope, state-of-the-art assessment and treatment, is a priority in our field academic.oup.com/ageing/pages/s… Oxford Academic OUP Medicine

In this document, the BGS sets out five principles that should underpin #FrontDoorFrailty services. It provides tips on establishing services from those who have been through the process. Find out more bgs.org.uk/FrontDoorFrail…

New paper on priorities for research from the perspective of older people.
1.Prevention/management
2.Improving health/care service provision
3.Improving daily life
4.Meeting carer needs
5.Planning ahead
academic.oup.com/ageing/article… Age_and_Ageing NIHR Yorkshire & Humber ARC British Geriatrics Society Karen Spilsbury 💚💙💛

BGS is proud to support this new campaign from Ageing Better: Age Without Limits which aims to educate and tackle #ageism in all its forms including in healthcare.

Get involved and join the movement. Visit the link to find out more: agewithoutlimits.org #AgeWithoutLimits

🌟🌟 It's finally complete! 🌟🌟

Thank you to Claire Carter in OUH OMI dept for helping design this poster with me to help #medical and #nursing staff identify #frailty on #AAU . Already helped today teaching new #doctors to the team.
OUH Therapies

Jugdeep Dhesi highlights work that BGS is doing to share best practice to help colleagues to learn from each other, particularly our most recently published #FrontDoorFrailty resource. #BGSconf You can find that here: bgs.org.uk/frontdoorfrail…

It’s #AdvancingPracticeWeek23 and very exciting to see one of our ACPs presenting at the national conference. Very privileged to work with this amazing bunch of people and more recently having my husband cared for by one of our teams. Hampshire Hospitals Chief Nurse Office Hampshire Hospitals Alison McGinnes

A shared strategy to measure healthy ageing helps us to unite in diversity and understand the issues that matter to older people
academic.oup.com/ageing/issue/5… #HealthyAgeing World Health Organization (WHO) British Geriatrics Society Oxford Academic OUP Medicine

New Heart failure Guidance for #VirtualWards published today england.nhs.uk/publication/gu… some great work from Jim Moore Prof Nick Linker Dr.Rajiv Sankaranarayanan adding to the portfolio of clinical guidelines for people who are managed with acute illness in a hospital at home setting that

Pathway planning moved to earlier in the patient journey in order to ensure discharge without delay says Lyndsey Dunn.. #BGSconf

📢Frailty elearning free to all!

We're delighted to share that our frailty elearning has been updated and relaunched and is FREE to all health and care professionals, thanks to funding from NHS England! Sign up today to improve your frailty knowledge. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

#GeriatricEmergencyMedicine Results from University Hospital Southampton 💙 Post NICE on #headinjury . Low rate of bleeding, bleeding associated with high risk injury +/- clinical signs, time to stop scanning? Can we therefore keep people at home? British Geriatrics Society Royal College of Emergency Medicine EuGMS - European Geriatric Medicine Society #EuGMS 2023 #EuGMS

601 CT head scans. 5 bleeds, 4 of which predicted by high risk status. So 596 people no benefit from scan and many will have had unseen harm- a trip to ED, fear or pain in scanner, a hospital stay, ‘deconditioning’ aka ‘got worse in hospital’ - we need to change this!

Falls are the most common cause of emergency hospital admission and 1 in 2 of those over 80 years fall at least once per year. People may lose confidence and independence afterwards.

Read the FinCH research: evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/falls-pr…
#FallsAwarenessWeek #ThinkFalls #ActionOnFalls

'Every fall is a story and every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Colleagues always ask me why I spend time asking people how they fell and what were they doing before the fall. This is an important source of intelligence' bgs.org.uk/blog/behind-ev…