Reposted by Lucy PollockMatteo Cesari @macesari.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Geriatric medicine is: - Refusal of easy solutions and predefined algorithms, - To look at the entire puzzle, not at one single piece of it, - Giving back to who gave us, - My hope when I will be old. #Geriatrics #Aging #Ageing #Care #Health #Medicine #MedSky 24010
Reposted by Lucy Pollockbathnewseum.bsky.social @bathnewseum.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Let’s talk about death? I am all for cafe culture and, with my addiction to caffeine, I have been a frequent visitor to Rosarios to put the world to right over a cup of black Italian coffee. There are many things to talk about in conversation with friends and family, but the end of your life isn't…bathnewseum.comLet’s talk about death?I am all for cafe culture and, with my addiction to caffeine, I have been a frequent visitor to Rosarios to put the world to right over a cup of black Italian coffee. There are many things to talk about in conversation with friends and family, but the end of your life isn't usually one of them! That's when I heard about the Death Cafe - an idea born in Switzerland but quickly spreading to London and around the world. We are not talking about a counselling session but a group get-together for the purpose of talking about the subject over food and drink. 122
Reposted by Lucy PollockPenny T @pennyt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Ready for the @ukhahsoc.bsky.social Conference tomorrow @rcpedin.bsky.social great chance to learn, discuss and network. #HospitalAtHome #HaHConf2026 @shelaghor.bsky.social @emmavardy2.bsky.social @charrisphysio.bsky.social @sophiemcglen.bsky.social @danlasserson.bsky.social 164
Reposted by Lucy PollockBJGP @bjgp.org · 15/01/2026This study suggests that #AdvanceCarePlanning may be well-received and could be discussed earlier with adults living with long-term conditions, before onset of advanced illness or severe frailty doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @sonyabushell.bsky.social @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social #PrimaryCare 3107
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026wordsinwatchet.com Fab new small but growing festival in Watchet - poetry nature fantasy games and more, and I’ll be talking interesting sad funny important stuff about #GettingOlder on Sat 21st Feb please share and come along, bring BF mum grandad son or neighbour!wordsinwatchet.comWords in WatchetSomerset Literary Festival 000
Reposted by Lucy PollockSarah M @sarah-owl.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Flu kills healthy kids. And many other people. If you haven’t got vaccinated yet this year there is still time 082
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Jeepers what did I say? 😝😝- I had a great time and learned lots thanks @jonathanunderhill.pharmsky.app 120
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025The level of #Frailty in #Cardiovascular trial participants isn’t always assessed w due care, so applicability to a wider popn isn’t as straightforward as some triallists would claim academic.oup.com/ageing/article… - editorial to accompany great study by Bousetta et al @emmavardy2.bsky.socialacademic.oup.com 053
Reposted by Lucy PollockJust a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 07/12/2025This is a good list. Its actually an excellent list. 1135
Reposted by Lucy PollockKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 07/12/2025I should have expected it, but it still shocks me how little news orgs care about the fact that corruption has destroyed nearly all consumer/labor/environmental/public safety protection and corporate oversight during Trump's second term media ownership supports this outcome 425363
Reposted by Lucy PollockHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Three teenagers riding side by side, chatting and sharing gum because protected cycle tracks make this kind of freedom safe, normal and enables social life. 533169
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025🎄🎄🎄The most uplifting event of the season! It’s free, no ticket needed, donstions welcomed and a warm glow guaranteed www.ageuk.org.uk/somerset/act... 11am this Wednesdayageuk.org.ukAge UK Somerset Christmas Carol Service Wednesday 10th December 2025Our Christmas Carol Service at Wells Cathedral will be on Wednesday 10th December 2025. Everyone will receive a warm welcome! 030
Reposted by Lucy PollockThe BMJ @bmj.com · 20/11/2025A new #BMJInvestigation finds that thousands of locally employed doctors are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national safeguards. Experts warn that the NHS is effectively “behaving like a gig economy employer” www.bmj.com/content/391/... 02616
Reposted by Lucy PollockThe Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 13/11/2025‘Why children's books matter’ – the keynote speech at the Booker Prize 2025 ceremony was given by Penelope Lively, the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for children's writing. youtu.be/a8SdOg94uiQyoutu.bePenelope Lively on why children's books matter | The Booker PrizeYouTube video by The Booker Prizes 0243
Reposted by Lucy PollockNeil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Liz Orton introduces FLEXI study about implementation of FAME - physical activity programme for #olderpeople @gerisoc #bgsconf @arc-em 052
Reposted by Lucy PollockGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/11/20251. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. 🧵1/8 27432162
Reposted by Lucy PollockUK Hospital At Home Society @ukhahsoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025📢 Calling all UK Hospital at Home Society members! 📨 Our National Benchmarking Survey has just been launched – please check your inbox and respond to help us deliver the most comprehensive look yet at Hospital at Home services across the UK. #HospitalAtHome 156
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Drum roll!! This is a very special document and will CHANGE PRACTICE www.bgs.org.uk/PragmaticPre...bgs.org.uk 1129
Reposted by Lucy PollockDavid Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025all the posters from @gerisoc #bgsconf www.bgs.org.uk/postersbgs.org.ukPosters | British Geriatrics Society 032
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025@emmavardy2.bsky.social your name mentioned! We all need a shared care record like that used in Greater Manchester! 151
Reposted by Lucy PollockEmma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 11/11/2025@graceinvaders.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @clairedow1.bsky.social 132
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Whoohoo! Calling #Bristol and surrounding areas 🥳🥳 I’ll be @cliftonlitfest at 10.30 on Sunday 16th Nov talking useful happy sad important things worth knowing about #GettingOlder - pleased come, bring mum, grandad, best friend, son ❤️❤️🐘🐘❤️❤️ 021
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Very exciting! I’m interviewing Prof @MasudHusain TOMORROW evening Monday 30th October @wellslitfest about his terrific book Our Brains Our Selves. Please come along! It’s a fascinating read ❤️📖🧠 040
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Hello bluesky!! Whoop whoop I love this! #TheGoldenRule published in China as #EnlightenOurTwilight with a beautiful foreword by geriatrician Dr Xinyu Chen. Beyond global politics more still unites us than divides us. Thank you @PenguinUKBooks @MichaelJBooks @Taffyagent 🥳🥳🥳 010
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Loved every minute of this. Super turn out and great questions - pills, AI, looking after someone at the end, loving life - and kisses! Really special thank you for inviting me xx 151
Reposted by Lucy PollockRoyal College of Physicians @rcphysicians.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Applications for the Emerging Women Leaders Programme close on Tuesday 1 July. Don’t miss this chance to enhance your leadership skills. Apply today: ow.ly/mp9K50WaFjz 033
Reposted by Lucy PollockKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/06/2025This man is a cryptid and I both love him and am about a decade off from becoming him. 2399260
Reposted by Lucy PollockGarrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king 361236642412
Reposted by Lucy PollockHelen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 16/06/2025The responses to this are an utter joy and a suitably British mix of the serious, the mildly sarky and the just plain bizarre (prog rock??). All is definitely not lost. 072
Reposted by Lucy PollockAlix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Toilets became free (and are still clean) in a lot of major railway stations a few years ago Police remain relatively untooled up after a lot of pushback a couple of decades ago (though other problems remain) Pharmacists are low key heroes in my experience 2531
Reposted by Lucy PollockTim F @culturalsnow.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Allotments. Public parks. Car boot sales. Thousands of small, local charities. 1741
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Hugely looking forward to tomorrow Tuesday evening in Chorleywood (#BestBookshopEver) chilternbookshops.co.uk/events/categ... where we’ll talk happy sad funny helpful stuff 🥳❤️chilternbookshops.co.ukEvents from 16 June, 2025 – 17 September, 2019 › Author Events › – Chiltern Bookshops 010
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025We had such a happy time recording this. And wow @juliasamuelmbe.blueskysocial is a wise and funny woman and I wish I’d listened more and talked less! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comExpert Episode: How to Age Well with Dr. Lucy PollockPodcast Episode · Therapy Works · 04/06/2025 · 1h 2m 143
Reposted by Lucy PollockAnna Baverstock @annabav.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Up early but I have tea and the best of company. Looking forward to spending the next few days with @lucygobag.bsky.social this feels like a very timely book - @doctoroxford.com @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social @bedsidereading.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social 192
Reposted by Lucy PollockPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Reform UK’s plans to obstruct green energy projects in Lincolnshire put at risk almost £1bn in local investment and more than 12,000 jobs, How many people analysed policies before voting for Reform, the party that also voted against worker rights.theguardian.comReform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows 58597339
Reposted by Lucy PollockMegan Tjasink @megantj.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Two interesting and inspiring inaugural lectures @qmul-wiph.bsky.social yesterday and an absolute tonic to catch up with research colleagues @qmulresilience.bsky.social 064
Reposted by Lucy PollockQMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social · 08/05/2025A great moment for the Centre as we enjoy the inaugural lectures of both Prof Jennifer Lau and Prof Claudia Cooper, illustrating a range from youth mental health to dementia @qmul-wiph.bsky.social 0167
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025One very cheery geriatrician!! Paperback coming soon and it has fab reviews. I’m so happy! www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Rule-... 0102
Reposted by Lucy PollockSean @keepstone.uk · 01/05/2025Fantastic workshop on #Ageing Education hosted by @graceinvaders.bsky.social with guest speaker @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social readings about #GettingOlder and #Geriatric medicine. Excited for further innovation & collaboration via @stmonicatrust.bsky.social & @impactalliance.bsky.social ! 141
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025One of the best bookshops ever. I’m honoured to be invited! 111
Reposted by Lucy PollockClaire Dow @clairedow1.bsky.social · 30/04/2025And launched tonight we have @acha020.bsky.social too! (COI on my way home from the celebration event!) 011
Reposted by Lucy PollockEmma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 30/04/2025@gerisoc.bsky.social @age-and-ageing.bsky.social have bagged handles but no posts as yet. 211
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I’m very excited about this - next Friday 9th at 10 am in Stratford upon avon - and I have 2 free tickets so please DM if you’d like them 🥳🥳https://www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/dr-lucy-pollockstratfordliteraryfestival.co.ukStratford Literary FestivalStratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival is an exciting mixture of debate, ideas, celebrity author events, workshops and humour. We run in Spring and Autumn. 011
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025doi.org/10.1136/ejhp... Super article - drug errors cause so much harm but this is an optimistic article identifying ways to help - systems, tech, support for fallible humans 👏👏👏👏doi.orgTackling medication errors: how a systems approach improves patient safetyObjectives Medication errors are a leading source of preventable harm in healthcare, affecting approximately 1 in 30 patients, with a substantial proportion resulting in severe outcomes. In response, ... 021
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025And 🥳 I’m very excited about this one - we’ll be looking at happy sad important stuff about #GettingOlder and what we can change right now. Plan A: stay young forever Plan B: come along to this one! www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/dr-lu...stratfordliteraryfestival.co.ukStratford Literary FestivalStratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival is an exciting mixture of debate, ideas, celebrity author events, workshops and humour. We run in Spring and Autumn. 030
Lucy Pollock @lucypgeridoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is very exciting! We’re going to have a happy afternoon thinking about funny sad or important stuff - sometimes all 3 at once - about #GettingOlder and hearing from people who know what it’s all about 🥳❤️🐘❤️ 143
Reposted by Lucy PollockEmma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Recognising the problem and calling it delirium is key. Helps GP triage. Stockport implementation of community pathway reduced transfer to ED. From 100% transferred to ED to 88% safely cared for at home. Utilising existing community teams. 032