#CallForPapers 📣 📝JMIR Aging invites submissions to our #themeissue, “Addressing Digital Ageism in the Modern Era.” This theme focuses on combatting #DigitalAgeism & ensuring equitable access to digital healthcare for older adults. ℹ️ aging.jmir.org/announcements/… Jinjiao (Jasmine) Wang

My timeline is very depressing at the moment & I cannot fathom the events in England right now. It is heartbreaking. So I am just reminding myself these wise words

Hello — a fundraiser/book drive has been started today to help replace the books & repair shelving destroyed during last night’s attack on the Spellow Lane library in Liverpool. Details here in case you’d like to give/share on: gofund.me/d024718f

Many commissioned community rehab beds aren’t providing rehab & recovery services but instead used for ‘warehousing’ after acute stays Meaning ~20k people/year are placed in ‘intermediate care’ beds without rehabilitation Bad for them and bad for the NHS hsj.cdn.wilmingtonplc.com/2024/08/05/exc…

URGENT: This Thursday we are handing in our petition to DEFRA calling for the badger cull to end. Please add your name! protectthewild.org.uk/badger-petition

"This RCGP General Practitioners with Extended Roles in #frailty framework covers how care is delivered, where, services that interface the role, and to how to develop and maintain the role." via BGS member Deborah Gompertz rcgp.org.uk/your-career/gp…

“Dreamlike landscape” 1/1 Art at MakersPlace 🔳 Link: makersplace.com/product/dreaml…

Tonight, the Far Right will attempt to intimidate and goad communities into violence - especially people of colour. Their aim: to feed their hateful narratives and present themselves as victims. Please don’t let them win the propaganda war. #RiotsNotProtests #UKRiots

Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]

Would you like to help to create a framework that researchers can use to involve #patients and the #public in rapid evidence syntheses? 📋Take our survey! 📋 It will take 5-10 minutes, and is open to anyone who has an interest in #evidencesynthesis or #PPIE methods from any

"The provision of good-quality end of life care in care homes enables care to be provided in surroundings that the patient is familiar with (as for patients in private homes), and has the potential to reduce urgent hospital admissions." via Nuffield Trust nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/what…

Guideline-tastic Age_and_Ageing this month Summary of SIGN Guidelines Dementia Clinical Practice Guideline doi.org/10.1093/ageing… and.. New Horizons on Guidelines for older adults doi.org/10.1093/ageing… Guideline producers – we are keen to see more guidelines in the journal

there is no place better on a hot summer day than under a beech tree #thicktrunktuesday

🧵It’s 5.00am on 8th May 2018 and I’m woken up by my phone ringing. I have 2 thoughts immediately - it’s a call from family in Australia or…it could be the call so many people wait for, often for years. A voice says ‘Is this Amanda Tomlins?’…1/

FUNDING CALL DEADLINE. Our first deadline for the Academy Ignition Fund is 5pm 23rd August 2024. If this doesn't work for you, we will also have deadlines in December and next March. For more info see tinyurl.com/38memff4

Loss of bursary, only viable route is now longer, low paid apprenticeships or debt. #Nursing is being deprofessionalised to suppress wages but the effect on patient safety will be (and is) devastating.

Elon Musk buys a pub

Every one of these stories is heartbreaking. Most unpaid carers are women, often living in poverty. Instead of being recognized for their vital contributions, they face prosecution. The current Carer’s Allowance system is broken—reform is long overdue. theguardian.com/society/articl…

The government: stop being economically inactive, stop being sick etc Also the government: we know how to protect you from those things, but we won't because you're not worth it #CEVlife

To mark the #DemocraticConvention #DNC2024 #DNC we've had fun adapting Eddy Grant's gloriously hopeful international anti-apartheid anthem from 1988. So here's 🎶 "Gimme Hope Kamala" - a parody twist about Kamala Harris 💙 vs #DonaldTrump 🍊 that pulls no punches.