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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Since I started work we’ve made so much progress with diagnosing delirium, ascertaining its relationship with dementia, and advocating for informed and compassionate care of people suffering it. Still so much to do though and so many unknowns….. #WDAD2025

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Strong House of God vibes from the Sun today…. Headline does no favours to older people or the folk looking after them

The Scottish sun with a headline describing admission avoidance and alternative pathways as ‘granny bouncing’

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Slightly forgot about Burns night so made tofu curry which is quite possibly as far from haggis as you can get 😂 We’ll have our veggie one tomorrow #burnssupper

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Cold sheep on todays winter run ❄️🥶🏃‍♀️👟🐑🐏😀

A group of sheep stand behind a gate, against a skyline at sunset

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Joanna Moodie @joannamoodie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New preprint! Which regions of the human brain are most strongly related to individual differences in general cognitive functioning? And what are the underlying neurobiological properties of those areas? | bioRxiv | doi: 10.1101/2024.12.17.628670 🧠

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Holly Paris @bloody--holly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#ChooseGeriatrics Profile: Richard Biram @richardbiram.bsky.social Chair England Council “I don’t remember hearing much about geriatric medicine during my training years. My first job as a doctor happened to be on a geriatric medicine ward and I absolutely loved it.” @gerisoc.bsky.social 👉🏻Repost

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

@mancunianmedic.bsky.social just found your 2008 JRSM article as the profanosaurus sprung to mind this morning! It’s a great article! I think we’ve made some progress if not quite enough…

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I am a huge fan of lymphoma action after my dalliance with #hodgkins a few years ago. They are a super charity ❤️

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Today I am off to observe the battery of cognitive testing @edinunilbc.bsky.social participants undergo to get some insight for my own PhD project I am also looking forward to the WGH Christmas door tradition!

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Sandy Thomson @drsandythomson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Geriatricians of BlueSky. Can anyone help? Does anyone know the name of a Geriatrician who works at Rutland (Oakham) Community Hospital in Leicestershire? Feel free to reply or DM. Thank-you.

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Excellent #phdlife week this week I’ve met (v cool) roboticists at the Caring Machines symposium and then a bevy of other PhD students at a joint Wellcome/ACRC event Collab is fab as they say Pic of a space robot for interest

A white robot that looks like an astronauts suit

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Medical student interviews this week at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Feels like yesterday though I am old enough Edinburgh didn’t interview me 😅 Great to see keen looking future colleagues! Good luck all (and when the time comes #choosegeris

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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Whilst we are talking about dying & giving people choices Can our government also choose to fund #PalliativeCare so that #hospices aren’t depending on charitable donations Why should end-of-life care need local people to run marathons & hold cake sales- which contributes to #inequities in care

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘homeostenosis’ ie a loss of adequate homeostasis, so often seen in #frailty #geriatricmed I’m unsure if the stenosis root is quite ‘right’ (but am not a classicist) but it’s a great concept. How have I not heard it before? Obv have used it about 12 times today already 😅

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Jugdeep Dhesi @jkdhesi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Thank you @ncfcareforum.bsky.social for inviting @gerisoc.bsky.social to the panel. 3 million people work in social care & health care in the UK, so much we can do together to ensure people age well & older people are supported to live well, independently & healthily. Lots to do together!!

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Pilgrimage to the #witches well near Edinburgh castle today on the way home as I am currently a bit obsessed The inscription suggests the artists wasn’t that convinced that the accused were in fact….all innocent 🤔

A stone well set into a wall with flowers planted in it

Text describing the dedication to the witches burned near the site, and the choice of decoration with evil and serene faces reflects that whilst some used their ‘knowledge’ for good, others used it for evil

Side of a stone well with a carving of hands, labelled hands of healing

Other Side lf the well with a carved evil eye

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today’s fact is that Heberden (of the nodes, ofc) Also came up with the term ‘angina pectoris’. Osler commented on the feeling of ‘imminent dissolution’ - angina animi - we all learn in medical school. From an article suggesting silent angina is a geriatric syndrome (not sure I agree)

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Chloe Fawns-Ritchie @cfawnsritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline/dementia. Supervisors include researchers at Edinburgh and Glasgow University and the Karolinska Institute! Learn more about this Precision Medicine PhD and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...

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Chronic pain, analgesic prescribing, and cognitive decline

Precision Medicine Project - Chronic pain, analgesic prescribing, and cognitive decline

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Esther Clift @estherclift.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

@rosespenfold.bsky.social describing dementia diagnosis in acute hospital setting and sharing in primary care1:4. Often older living with more frailty and lower socioeconomic- receiving poorer community interventions @gerisoc.bsky.social #BGSconf

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Serious #bgsconf fomo! Have a great first day team Looking forward to joining on Friday

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Claire Copeland @sparklystar55.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Come join us at #bgsconf tomorrow for this interactive and important workshop on moral injury. We want to hear people's experience and what we in @gerisoc.bsky.social can do to support #gerisky

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Family ethos at the moment is not ‘stop and smell the roses’ but ‘stop and watch the tractors’ (out of shot, it was a John Deere for #tractorbsky)

A toddler in a light blue coat watches through a metal gate across a field as a tractor ploughs a field, at sunset.

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Abi Rimmer @abirimmer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I'm on the lookout for doctors with hobbies again! This time particuary interested in ones that have a cultural significance to you or link you to your heritage (I think I'm thinking dance, food etc but I don't really know) Does that make sense? Email me arimmer@bmj.com if it does or to correct me

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Charlotte Squires @charlottesquires.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

After leaving 'the other place' a few months ago I have predictably caved #networking #learning and/or #procrastinating Hello again, online friends!

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