@tr203i.bsky.social

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It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Researchers pinpoint cause of rare but life-threatening blood clots after adenovirus-based COVID vaccination

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Mrs Smith, 78, hip fracture patient, described as "confused & aggressive"

Ward round note: "?UTI. Start antibiotics." No mention of "delirium"

My reaction: What about her distress - untreated pain? Dehydration? Medication review? Telling the family the diagnosis? Etc.

Why we need Delirium 8 👇

Some in the media are getting very defensive now that the public are becoming vocal about bias. But people don't say Victoria Derbyshire is biased, though she pushes hard. That's because the public know the difference between good journalism and constant attacks on just one side of politics.

We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown The abuse of women by figures such as Epstein, and of political power by the likes of Mandelson, must be confronted. As far as I am able, I will play my part, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brow...

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"It's just the dementia progressing."

A very dangerous phrase in clinical care.

Acute change in someone with dementia? That's #delirium until proven otherwise.


↳ Don't put the stick in the patient's wheel.


#Delirium

Talking Sense: Living with Sensory Changes and Dementia by Agnes Houston Talking Sense is the culmination of more than a decade of research by Agnes Houston after she was diagnosed with younger-onset dementia in 2006.

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Is there a *gold standard* assessment scale to represent this information or is it all narrative.

and how is an individuals *previous level of functioning* assessed

I can’t believe we’re here🤦🏼‍♀️
Omg😡😭

Do ward changes affect outcomes differently in people living with dementia? AbstractBackground. Ward changes during hospital admissions are associated with poorer outcomes, but their impact on people living with dementia is unknown

Sharing this paper again. Getting some good attention and hopefully will facilitate change in patient flow pathways for people with dementia in hospital. All credit to lead author @emmaelliott.bsky.social @arc-gm.bsky.social
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YouTube video by HSJ | Health Service Journal Mrs Andrews' story: Her failed care pathway

I did this with @hsj.co.uk a decade ago about some of these issues

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It’s crochet.

A long-term study in Sweden found that eating more high-fat dairy, like cheese and cream, may lower the risk of dementia. Over 25 years, people who consumed more than 50 grams of high-fat cheese daily had a reduced chance of developing dementia. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41406402/

Ask your neighbours where theirs are.

Make this go viral.

Labour MP Louise Haigh.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

In the decade she mentions retirement age has increased by 6 years for women and 1 year for men. That might take some potential volunteers out of the ‘market’

Save this, it's perfect.

Didsbury Gate, Didsbury -

They are now luxury apartments naturally.

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I’d recommend breaking yourself in easily by going part time first.

Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.

It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.

The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.

Cartoon style image of a young woman with long blonde hair (Polly!) standing on a sheet of paper, biro alongside, trapped in a net of sentences coming off the page and enveloping her.

My (now) severely brain-injured sister Polly once drew an image of herself wrestling with complex vocabulary.

It was pinned up over @jennykitzinger.bsky.social's desk for sisterly solidarity as she dealt with making a COP application for Polly.

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It’s wonderful and should be pinned up over many more desks

Nobody seems to ask the real, most important question: what is a wagon wheel?

Hope she is home soon.

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