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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sadly very relevant academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...
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Dehydration and renal failure in older persons during heatwaves-predictable, hard to identify but preventable?
Abstract. Extremes of temperature are likely to increase in frequency associated with climate change. Older patients are particularly vulnerable to the eff
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Good to see this out www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Addenbrookes (ACE III) as Gaeilge Comhghairdeas Aoife, Elaine JB @DSIDCDementia, ní fhaca mé go dtí seo. agus an fáth go bhfuil sé tábhachtach.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Importance of different language versions of cognitive screening tests: Comparison of Irish and English versions of the MMSE in bilingual Irish patients
There have been few studies comparing the effects of giving both versions of a cognitive test to bilingual subjects. This study examined the test perf…
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Co-decision-making is the middle of the three new tiers of support in the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. It's a new and challenging concept and the capacity test for assessors is complex. My take and personal views just out..
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Co-decision-making in the assisted decision-making (Capacity) Act 2015: challenges and complexities | Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Co-decision-making in the assisted decision-making (Capacity) Act 2015: challenges and complexities
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Our take on (sometimes surreptitious) monitoring cameras in residents' rooms: it is complicated, ethically and legally challenging and no panacea for poor care. imj.ie/in-room-surv...
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1... Comment on implications of Egawa et al (Int Urol Nephrol (2025)) which found a severity-dependent association between dysphagia and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in older patients.
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Dysphagia, chronic kidney disease and the risks of thickened fluids - International Urology and Nephrology
International Urology and Nephrology -
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
As I read some health policies/ guidelines “When you communicate clearly, people can see your ideas might be wrong or banal,” he says. “That’s scary. So jargon becomes a shield.”
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Really powerful article from @jonathanmoens.bsky.social and colleagues about the abuse of older people through restraints. Focuses on Italy, Spain and Portugal but occurs much more widely undark.org/2025/07/25/e...
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Coercive Care: Southern Europe’s Reliance on Elder Restraints
In parts of Europe, nursing homes use physical restraints on residents, citing safety. But experts warn of harm.
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Valid informed consent requires provision of accurate and balanced information, and that agreement is given freely by someone who knows they have a choice. This is true for use of modified texture diets (MTDs) in dysphagia as for other healthcare interventions
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
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biochemyst.bsky.social @biochemyst.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Why risk feeding your children?
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Our take on thickened liquid and modified texture diet #challenges. Originally @ewidera.bsky.social - and still if used correctly - a valuable role in highlighting the impact of modified diets and encouraging staff to reflect on the appropriateness of their use
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
rdcu.be/ebsDM Just out. Featuring this drawing of his own hallucination by a talented patient: “shiny, silvery” “big, deep, dark eyes, like holes” “almost stretched mouth” “a bit unusual maybe but rather pretty and graceful”.
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The eyes have it! Visual hallucinations with facial distortions during delirium
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here's a controversy I didn't know existed! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37888960/#:~....
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
2015 "nip this “reaching out” nonsense in the bud before it “becomes a thing”" www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/p... Alas hasn't worked: 3 emails already today. Stop it!!
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Wonderful article, and sad also in how long effective dx and Tx were delayed. Iron not a panacea - but remember when considering it's not serum iron that counts but the stores - check ferritin/ trans sats www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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I clock up to 20,000 steps a night: my life with restless legs syndrome
I spent years desperate for help and exhausted from lack of sleep. But the condition is badly misunderstood – even by doctors
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Margaret Walshe @margaret-walshe.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Delighted to see this published. Open access .. See rdcu.be/d4ST1. @tcddublin.bsky.social @dysphagiamatters.bsky.social
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Why Britain's doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Can’t stop thinking about this @sarahoconnorft.bsky.social column on the poor quality of sound on Spotify and what other reductions in quality that might become commonplace in the future:
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We’re all suffering from qualitynesia now
Borne along on the tide of technology, it is far too easy to forget that some things really were better quality in the past
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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Reviewing this. I couldn’t put it down. Piller has done a fantastic and diligent job detailing individual instances of fraudulent Alzheimer research, the resulting contamination of our field and the troubling complacency of research leaders about the problem. Landmark book that will make you angry.
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stokee62.bsky.social @stokee62.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
A new and unwelcome shower! Typos not mine Dear [me], I found your paper on X insightful. I am curious, are you still conduciting any research in this area? I am editing a theme issue focused on Rehabilitation for the official journal of the European Society of Medicine, ...
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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A nice summary by @charlottehuff.bsky.social of what we know and don’t know about #Alzheimer’s blood based biomarkers and amyloid antibodies. immattersacp.org/archives/202...
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Alzheimer's advances pose challenges
A new test and new treatments for Alzheimer's disease may offer patients hope but could also raise more questions than they answer, with careful balancing of risks and benefits required.
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excellent thing Klaxon! Have only just found out that all 4 series of wonderful parody series “Documentary Now” with Bill Hader and Fred Armisen among others, is on ITVx, of all places. They are very brilliant, note perfect spoofs of legendary documentaries. Highly recommended.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Imminently out of date 'Ketchup Cheetos' are on special offer at my local Costcutter. You have to wonder how special the offer is. But not enough to ask. (Also, because I think it's worth noting, this is the the kind of whimsy I stopped posting on Twitter because even this nonsense got mullered.)
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saadgul.bsky.social @saadgul.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“The law, I’ve always thought, is rather like an eccentric aunt — formidable, notoriously unpredictable, and with a tendency to produce unexpected letters just when you thought everything was perfectly in order.”- #Wodehouse
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