Lindsey Darley

These are great. Would be interested to know how widely they are used

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting

Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

A pregnant woman sitting, holding her left sleeve up to show her arm while a nurse administers the RSV vaccine.

💙 Our new findings show that babies younger than 3 months, whose mothers received the maternal RSV vaccination, were 80% less likely to end up in hospital than those whose mums hadn’t been vaccinated.

Find out more 🔽
publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/au...

#VaccinesWork

#asac25 looking forward to the conference today and already inspired by the speakers stories and information

Read to the end..

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Please, take a bow.

Empowered Conversations course with staff & students at #Salford Royal.

It offers a reflective space to explore #dementia and #communication. For more information:

empowered-conversations.co.uk/at-work/

@emmavardy2.bsky.social @lindseydarley1.bsky.social @dementiacommunity.bsky.social

Effectiveness of Functional Resistance Training in Hospital to Prevent Deconditioning and Improve Discharge Pathways: A Service Evaluation Introduction Deconditioning is a complex process of physiological change following a period of inactivity. This can be observed in a clinical setting when hospital patients have prolonged periods of...

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Sharing this evaluation of our use of Sports Science graduates to deliver strength and conditioning exercise programmes and their impact on deconditioning & positive outcomes on discharge pathways for our frail patients.

Really inspiring stories of how our wards have changed their practice to get patients back home, rather than prolonging g their stay in hospital. 4000 people at Salford Royal in the past 12 months, just showing our Days Kept Away from
Home approach works!

Apple tree in the garden.

Chart: How has the number of people with a dementia diagnosis changed over time by age group and gender? The number of people with a formal diagnosis of dementia in England increased from 427,176 in December 2022 to 498,221 in December 2024. As of December 2024, individuals over 65 years old made up 97% of all dementia diagnoses. Women accounted for the majority (62%) of all formal dementia diagnoses in December 2024.

🆕 Our #QualityWatch team have started tracking the state and quality of #dementia care in England.

Women over 65 years-old accounted for 62% of all formal dementia diagnoses in December 2024.

Read more: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/dem...

Half term!

The overlooked cause of dementia that doctors can prevent We are advised to cut risk of dementia through exercise and eating healthy – but are never warned to try to avoid an episode of delirium while in hospital, although it is linked with a three-fold high...

Delirium is an underrecognised risk factor for future dementia...sometimes preventable, and perhaps treatable if we prioritise research in this area @amaclullich.bsky.social @proflizsampson.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/health/...

Headline that reads MAN WITH NOTHING TO DECLARE HAD 55 TORTOISES IN HIS PANTS

Roses are red
Dead is romance...

Fantastic night. Really proud to be a part of such an amazing set of organisations in Bolton.

If you can, be a trustee and help make a difference

Stage is set for celebrating Bolton’s Children and Young People voluntary services.

Amazing job from the team and thanks to Bolton Council for providing the venue

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust on LinkedIn: Thousands of patients are being discharged quicker thanks to a new… Thousands of patients are being discharged quicker thanks to a new programme called Days Kept Away from Home. This video tells the story of how this new…

www.linkedin.com/posts/northe... one of our major programmes across every ward in our Trust is described here in this little video. Whilst a 16 ward collaborative was our test bed, we are now seeing large scale improvement of people returning to their usual residence. More to come on this!

The University of Stirling Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) are launching a new course entitled ‘LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in Ageing and Dementia’.

Read More: https://buff.ly/3E5aPxu
Read John Bond's Blog for Us on Inclusivity: https://buff.ly/4gUe5ub

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We're losing wildlife. Frogs, butterflies, bumblebees, hedgehogs, moths, bats, insects, birds are all declining. But if more of us take positive actions for biodiversity in our gardens, communities, landscapes and towns, we can help nature bounce back. Who's in?

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

A request! We can't grow this account fast enough. So please follow us if you aren't already, and please share the post below to spread the word. Help us do our bit to share positive solutions to the nature & climate emergencies, and bring more nature into people's lives 😊🐝

High Impact Change Model: Improving the timely and effective discharge of people with dementia and delirium into the community This High Impact Change Model (HICM) offers a practical approach to support health and care systems to deliver best practice for an individual’s journey to, during and following discharge from an acut...

www.local.gov.uk/our-support/... new publication from the LGA under the Better Care Fund. Great to see a real focus on people with dementia and the challenges & solutions to support admission avoidance, acute hospital stay and discharge. A great resource

Oh I don’t know. Royal Mail today…contents have mysteriously disappeared

A different Saturday night for me, assisting with cocktails! Prepping 11 pineapple daiquiris in this picture

This week for #wildflowerhour Ivy, fern and possibly ver early bluebell? Certainly in the bluebell wood area

No one in the family, my dad or sisters, had ever seen it before, and no one knew where it had come from.

Ever since, this been a special and favourite Christmas decoration. One I can’t help feeling has somehow, mysteriously, been gifted by my lovely deceased mum.
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Mentioned she had bought me a Christmas ornament.

Then she asked me if we had definitely cleared the room & that the floor was completely clear. I replied, that yes we had.

Only, she said, she had walked into the room a few minutes ago…. and sitting in the middle of the floor, was this… 4/

No one, including me, saw the ornament, and she never for to give it to me.

After she died, we cleared the room and sent all the medical equipment and hospital bed back. The room and the floor was entirely clear.

My sister rang me a few days later. She was puzzled and asked if mum had 3/

Over the years family have bought me more of these, including my mum, to the pint where there is a tree full of them.

Fast forward to my late 30’s and in the October my mum is at home and dying of cancer. A few days before she died she told me she had a Christmas ornament for me. 2/

A story about a special Christmas ornament which is a bit spooky (kind of) and a bit Christmas (ish.

In my 20’s I went to a Victorian Christmas fair at the Industrial Museum in Bradford with my mum. There I bought my first three metal Victorian type baubles. 1/