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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6h

Pleased to have contributed a little bit to this amazing @dementiauk.bsky.social total!

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6h

Gosh I remember this!

Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6h

If Robert Smith did similar event. There in blink of an eye!

Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6h

Isn't there something about putting house spider outside and they die....though doesn't stop me. That or squish!

Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6h

Eugh!

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 6h

Yours faithfully if official and don't know person.
Yours sincerely if official but know person.
Many thanks, nice informal.
Best wishes, nice bit more formal
Kind regards, various interpretations!

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 10h

I love the idea of inviting someone back to yours after a blind date, this is your living room, and you say nothing at all

Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 12h

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Nature Reviews Disease Primers @natrevdiseaseprimers.nature.com · 12h

Frontotemporal lobar degeneration is one of the most common causes of early-onset dementia and presents with early social–emotional–behavioural and/or language changes that can be accompanied by a pyramidal or extrapyramidal motor disorder.
https://www.nature.c...

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 12h

Are we that old Sandy??

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Ros Fraser @sltros.bsky.social · 13h

We still have them in Scotland. Invaluable resource.

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Sandy Thomson @drsandythomson.bsky.social · 14h

When I was CD I fought like mad for us to keep our Day Hospital.
It was a cornerstone of outpatient, CGA, SDEC, MDT therapy and admission avoidance all in one.
That was 15 years ago.
Very short-sighted 🤷🏻‍♂️
I envy those units across the UK who were fortunate enough to retain theirs.

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Michaël Laurent @michaellaurent.bsky.social · 14h

Yes we do have them in Belgium, they are still rising in popularity with the aging of the population

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 14h

We don't have any day hospital for older people at NCANHSFT. Used to be one at least at Salford site. Do you have one?

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 14h

We don't have any day hospital for older people at NCA? Used to be one at least at Salford site. Do you have one?

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 14h

Many a day hospital in my experience ceased to exist in service reconfigurations.

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 14h

Whoop whoop!

Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 14h

Why oh why did we ever get rid of day hospitals for older people? With little to replace....

The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 15h

With increasing pressure on budgets and demand, neighbourhood health services need better approaches. At today’s Moving Care Closer to Home event at The King’s Fund, we’re exploring inspiring examples, and you can read more in our blog.

Follow the conversation: #KFCloserToHome

Unleashing The Power Of Communities | The King's Fund

With shrinking budgets but increasing demand, neighbourhood health needs to find radical ways to meet local needs. Adam Lent and Minal Bakhai explore how some places are doing just that.

www.kingsfund.org.uk

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 18h

Noooo!

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no! Hope wait not too long! Get well soon. Ps don't know your age. But in my book not old until 80 or above! At 51 I'd officially be recruited to research studies in the older person category 😅

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

That Irish writing should stop looking backwards.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 1d

Just checked. It's true!

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kiwis and mineral water can cut constipation, says new guidance

New guidance for doctors says focusing on fruit in our diets can help with a really common complaint.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 1d

ICYMI: Quercus Non-Fiction is set to publish Dr Victoria Rose’s A Beautiful Place: A Doctor’s Diaries from Gaza, for publication in spring 2026 👇 #BookSky

Quercus to publish Victoria Rose's 'confronting and urgent' diaries from Gaza

ebx.sh

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone has worked out or has systems to do these things well please let me know:
1. Primary care colleagues aware of secondary care services for older people (and vice versa) and how to contact ie a good DOS.
2. IT systems that can flag when person DNA outpatient appt as in hospital or respite.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2d

“the plain fact that youth services ought to be thought of as one of the public realm’s most basic elements”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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