Dementia specialist. Advice on care for older people. https://xitter.cf/t.co/JNADCXClVh
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined December 2010
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Message to my lovely followers 🙏Thank you! If I ever helped or entertained you with #Dementia info here’s a special one time ask 🙏 Please, please like and retweet one of my posts re fly tipping 🚮 to help me with our campaign to fix the @Edinburgh fly tipping problem 👍 Thanks
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#Sciennes having taken a bit of a battering this morning.
Same areas, same problems time-and-time again, @Edinburgh_CC.
Why?
I was afraid pink chair might get 💨 away in the storm ☔️She’s been there for so long⏳she’s civic furniture (conservation status?)How long before she needs a postcode?📮(As a friend, I may have to tell her that she is starting to smell🤢) @Edinburgh_CC
Storms-a-brewin' in #Marchmont.
Would say this problem's freshly blown in, but we all know that's not the case now @Edinburgh_CC. Is it?
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ASH Scotland and dental experts in Scotland welcome the law bringing in a ban on nicotine pouches sales to under 18s coming into force later this week.
Read the full story - bit.ly/4iy4JY4
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Doctors call for greater involvement in developing “assisted dying” safeguards after law receives Royal Assent.
Almost ¾ of Isle of Man Medical Society members opposed the practice; concerns include eligibility, implementation and potential for coercion.
bbc.com/news/articles/c8vgx4…
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Two things NICE says about assessing memory problems.
First, do not rule out dementia solely because someone scores normally on a cognitive test. NICE also suggests that when a history is taken from someone who knows the person well, it can be supplemented with a structured questionnaire for that person, such as IQCODE.
Second, before referring to a memory clinic, other possible causes of declining memory and thinking should be investigated, including depression, sight or hearing loss, and some medicines.
If you are worried about a relative, tell the GP what you have noticed, and ask for sight, hearing and the medicine list to be checked.
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“How might we square the fact that they have lost a degree of mental capacity now, that they have left instructions when they were younger to end their life when this happens, with the fact that they are perhaps the most content they have been in their whole life?” he asks."
Canadian policies on assisted suicide are incoherent and unsafe, argues @AdamPollock. It is high time they were reversed
thecritic.co.uk/canada-must-…
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LIVE: @DrTedros’ remarks at the @WHOWPRO Regional Committee. #RC77 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YxNrboXW…
I’ll miss the fly tipped chair if @Edinburgh_CC which apparently checks hubs every two days takes it @EdinburghLive_ Been here since September🧐Or was it late August?🫣I’ll ask the council bin guys tomorrow.They may remember as they always have to work round it outside my window
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Looking forward to giving a Public Health Scotland learning event this week about healthy life expectancy, what we know about living longer & healthier lives and the role of policy and experts in this objective. It’s a nice chance for me to learn from colleagues and a good complement to the MPH & undergrad teaching. The undergrad students requested a COVID lecture this week despite my attempts to dissuade - they were 12-16 years old during the pandemic, which arguably was the group hit overall hardest by the impact.
Free event for #carers Thursday 22nd Nuffield Omni Centre Edinburgh 3-4pm - looking after your own health is not separate from caring. To book email [email protected].
Free places still available at this Edinburgh event. Come and learn how to maintain your own health and well being as a carer❤️@VOCALEdinburgh @TheCarerUK @tide_carers @CarersTrustScot @CarersTrust Please share!
The Nuffield Gym in Edinburgh is hosting a free session for Carers on how to look after yourself while caring. All welcome! Kirsteen’s expertise is on nutrition and exercise and I’ll be talking about brain health. Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday 22nd.
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Notice the con. When first pushing killing as an answer to suffering, activists PROMISE that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. As soon as the law goes into effect, the guidelines are redefined as "barriers" or "discrimination," and the law is expanded. Because there can never be enough euthanasia.
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Doctors Euthanize 17-Year-Old Girl Who Had Depression and Anxiety buff.ly/m0VFE67
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🇧🇪 A co-chair of Belgium's Federal Euthanasia Commission (also president of a leading pro-euthanasia campaign group 👀) concedes that Belgium “lacks social studies examining the circumstances of people requesting euthanasia. That makes it difficult to determine how factors such as loneliness, poverty and access to care might influence individual requests.”
brusselstimes.com/belgium/23…