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Megan Armstrong

@drmegs.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Primary Care Research @UCL-PrimaryCare.bsky.social Passionate about reducing health inequalities. A socialist and a bit East London. Free Palestine 🍉

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Louise Marston @proflouisemarston.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Evidence for health promotion interventions to improve cognitive and physical functioning outcomes in older adults with MCI: A state-of-the-art review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ucl-caps.bsky.social @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social @drmegs.bsky.social @tasminrookes.bsky.social
Background
Health promotion activities for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may improve their overall health and prevent progression to dementia. We need to understand the best approaches to behaviour change in this population.
Aim
To summarise the types of health promotion interventions and current clinical effectiveness evidence for physical and cognitive functioning outcomes in people with MCI.
Design
State-of-the art review
Method
Medline was searched in April 2025, for systematic reviews synthesising randomised controlled trials testing effectiveness of health promotion interventions in older adults with MCI, published since 2015. Abstracts, titles, and full texts were single screened and, for eligible reviews, the characteristics, intervention type, primary outcome, and evidence for people with MCI, were extracted. Key messages were narratively synthesised across reviews, grouping by type of intervention and outcome measure.
Results
From 1776 titles and abstracts, 57 systematic reviews were eligible. Regular moderate intensity multicomponent physical exercise and memory-focussed cognitive training interventions had the strongest evidence base for improving cognitive functioning. However, combining physical exercise and cognitive training was more beneficial for cognitive domains and physical functioning, in comparison to doing them individually. The evidence for nutrition interventions was mixed. One review of psychological interventions showed improvements for wellbeing.
Conclusion
There is evidence that health promotion interventions can support people with MCI and dementia to improve or maintain their cognitive function, through multicomponent physical activity combined with cognitive training. More evidence is needed for nutritional recommendations, psychological interventions, and social inclusion interventions.
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Emma River-Roberts @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"It’s important that working-class people who occupy positions of authority, or who have a public platform acknowledge how the politics of respectability work, and firmly reject methods to control working class people through judgement and shaming." journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/wo...
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Israel is a nuclear armed genocidal rogue state. It is allowed to commit every war crime under the sun - armed and facilitated by the West. Yet you hear so few people saying these truths on TV. Here's what I said this morning.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW: UK Government staff have been told to resign if they disagree with Labour's Israel policy. It comes after 300 staff warned Labour are aiding 'the erosion of global norms' by supporting Israel despite law breaches
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Looking for a full-time post doc to join the PCPH team 🙌 leading on co-design and a feasibility study for management of MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Please share 🙏 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor? I know which side I’m on.
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Pride is a protest 🌈 Happy pride month ❤️
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Looking for a full-time post doc to join the PCPH team 🙌 leading on co-design and a feasibility study for management of MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Please share 🙏 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 27/05/2025
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"Just one more thing, Mr Farage, you want to lift the child benefit cap so people can have more kids. But I thought we were full?"
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is what our governments are facilitating.
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Looking for a part-time research assistant to join my amazing team at UCL to develop and test a digital intervention for MLTCs in people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation. Someone with mixed-methods experience would be ideal! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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UCL primary care and population health @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Great discussions at our Centre for Ageing Population Studies (CAPS) this week! We shared work on healthy ageing, Parkinson’s, dementia, carers & health inequalities. A pleasure to welcome Dr Jasmine Mah a geriatric medicine resident and post-doc fellow at Dalhousie University Halifax Canada !
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Dr Rohit K Dasgupta @rkdasgupta.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Just finished watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers. It is truly truly horrifying. www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
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Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning
In this documentary, Theroux allows ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers to speak with perfect openness. It is chilling.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/04/2025
The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before
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The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before
The documentarian manages to stay calm and polite as guns are repeatedly pointed at him in the West Bank. Then someone shoves him …
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“You shouldn’t be indifferent”
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sunshine, drinks and lovely food with the wonderful @abiwoodward.bsky.social 🍸
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andybearrorist @superfurryandy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Morally repugnant" Labour www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’
Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest
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Troovus @troovus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I’m old enough to remember when Angela Rayner mocked the use of “handouts” terminology against working class people and pointed out that it was corporations that really got the taxpayer funded handouts
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 25/03/2025
This is not going to work out the way they think it will, but I feel deep sadness and solidarity for everyone caught in its cruel stupidity.
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 25/03/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge Wes Streeting for backing cruel disability cuts. We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists, and left to fight for survival in a rigged system. #StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
10 years ago I completed a PhD to prove a council estate kid could do anything if just given the opportunity 🪜
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
👎 Only a fraction of medical students come from working class backgrounds, we have found. Our research shows that working-class people are still heavily underrepresented in medical profession, despite efforts to widen access.
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Unequal Treatment? - The Sutton Trust
Unpacking the problems with access to medical degrees and careers.
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Dr Penny Rabiger @pennyrabiger.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Lecturer in Sociology | UCL - Faculty of Education and Society #Edujobs #EduSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI116/l...
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Lecturer in Sociology at UCL
An academic position as a Lecturer in Sociology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Polly Toynbee 8 days apart. She should have just written one article that said: “If there have to be cuts, don’t let it affect me or anyone I know”
Polly Toynbee in the Guardian 13/3/25
Dear Rachel Reeves: if there is no alternative to cuts, at least do them with care Polly Toynbee in the Guardian 21/3/25 
Thirteen years ago, Emma told me disability cuts nearly broke her family. Now under Labour it’s worse
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UCL primary care and population health @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🌟 We're Hiring: Research Associate in Behavioural Epidemiology! 🌟 Lead a work package on Physical Activity Surveillance during Pregnancy as part of a UKRI-funded programme. 📅 Position: Postdoc (1.0 FTE, 4 years) 📆 Apply by: 17th April 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH390/r...
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Research Fellow in Behavioural Epidemiology at UCL
An academic position as a Research Fellow in Behavioural Epidemiology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Keir Starmer & his Labour goons won't #TaxTheRich because they've been promised jobs worth £millions when the pendulum next swings to the (they hope) even further right If you don't believe me just look at Tony Blair and his luxury lifestyle soon after leaving office
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Andre Dahl @andredahl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Karl Marx died on Mar. 14, 1883, in London at the age of 64. His critique of capitalism and vision of proletarian revolution articulated in The Communist Manifesto and Capital became the theoretical foundations of the working class and socialist movements. #KarlMarx
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On international women’s day, a reminder, that if your feminism isn’t intersectional, it’s not real feminism
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Love this article. A reminder International women’s day is a protest and celebration of all women not an opportunity to network. Give it a read 😊 tribunemag.co.uk/2020/03/the-...
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The Socialist Roots of International Women’s Day
International Women's Day was developed as a celebration of working-class women and their contribution to the struggle against capitalism.
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Sarah ER Bailey @ssarahbailey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New collaborations on the horizon!
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Lovely catch up and grant planning day with @ssarahbailey.bsky.social. Discussing all things cancer and deprivation. Here we are - just two Ass Profs on the beautiful Hampstead Heath 😎
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Channel 4 on Tuesday, March 4 at 11.15pm
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-…
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'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature
The film previously faced restrictions over its criticism of the Israeli occupation of Palestine
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UCL primary care and population health @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ramadan Mubarak! Wishing all our students and staff observing this holy month a time of peace, reflection, and spiritual growth. May this Ramadan bring you blessings, strength, and moments of togetherness. #RamadanMubarak #Ramadan2025
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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Students from working class backgrounds still make up only 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK. This is what happens when widening participation is an activity rather than a central guiding mission. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Only 5% of UK medical school entrants are working class, data shows
Sutton Trust says underrepresentation of poorer students is ‘outrageous’ but number has doubled in 10 years to 2022
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Donna Wakefield @donnawakefield.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Students from working class backgrounds still only make up 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK,a proportion that has doubled over the past decade” I wish someone would listen to the ways we continue to be disadvantaged way beyond being accepted to medical school #Inequalities baked in
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UCL primary care and population health @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
📢 Participants Needed! Are you 21+ and living in the UK? Help us explore brain health & cognitive frailty by taking a short survey! 📍 Click the link or scan the QR code to participate. liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person...
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UCL primary care and population health @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Congratulations to Professor Kate Walters and team on their latest publication! 📢 HomeHealth is highly likely to be cost-effective due to its impact on reducing unplanned hospital admissions. 👏👏https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266675682400196X
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UCL primary care and population health @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🎉 Congratulations! 🎉 Huge well done to Juan Carlos Bazo-Alvarez and all PCPH members—their article in @bjgp.bsky.social made the Top 10 list for 2024! 👏🎊 📖 Read it here: bjgp.org/content/74/7...
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
First day of my new job as an Associate Professor 😃 if you need me I’ll be associating with the Professors 💁🏼‍♀️
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
"I am an academic, a mother, no threat to anyone. Yet those I love have been injured and killed, and I have endured indescribable hardships". Thinking of Gaza today, #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
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In Gaza we were the happiest family I could imagine. Then came the worst days of my life | Fadwa al-Masry
I am an academic, a mother, no threat to anyone. Yet those I love have been injured and killed, and I have endured indescribable hardships
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/12/2024
The WHO said Israel’s 'systematic dismantling' of Gaza’s health system is a 'death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians,' after Israeli forces stormed and burned Kamal Adwan Hospital and detained many of its staff. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ojrpnn
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
A bug’s life - explains class consciousness to my 8 year old much better than I can ☺️
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a cartoon grasshopper is saying " let 's just think about the logic shall we "
ALT: a cartoon grasshopper is saying " let 's just think about the logic shall we "
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Fashion designer Katharine Hamnett throws her CBE away in disgust at the UK's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Double Down News @doubledown.news · 18/12/2024
UN Special Rapporteur EXPOSES Crime Of The Century
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UN Special Rapporteur EXPOSES Crime Of The Century
This is why Israel wants to silence her
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Abi Woodward @abiwoodward.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New publication exploring the role of #culturallyrelevant #socialprescribing in supporting Pakistani carers incl. complexities surrounding carer identity, family dynamics, #stigma, and lack of knowledge of social prescribing within #Pakistanicommunities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Role of Culturally Relevant Social Prescribing in Supporting Pakistani Carers Living in the UK
Background Approximately 5.7 million people in the UK are providing informal care. Carers across all ethnic groups can experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health but some minori...
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Megan Armstrong @drmegs.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Saturday morning chats with Betty.
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