It might be the height of summer, but winter, as always, is coming. We've created a checklist to help you make changes to make this winter a little easier for older people in your service. https://t.co/aoIWmWjuMX

Mandy and Barbara, Trinity Blackpool Clinical Assistants and I have been at Windmill Lodge Nursing Home delivering an interactive training session to carers. We covered end of life care&symptom management.Thank you for having us! #endoflifecare #training #carers #palliativecare

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Our Frailty elearning course is free to all health and social care professionals and carries 10 CPD credits. If you work with older people living with or at risk of frailty, register now! https://t.co/pPCw40DEoI

Our Delirium in Older People elearning course is aimed at health and social care professionals who provide care and services for older people at risk of or experiencing delirium. It's worth 10 CPD credits. Find out more:

Our Frailty Hub brings together articles, national guidelines, and best practice relevant to frailty. It's a great place to go for everything from an introduction to frailty to implementing a frailty service.

Advance Care Planning: A Patient Journey is now available. It's the first in a new series of short Microlearning CDP courses from BGS. It's totally free for our members, and available at a small cost for non-members. https://t.co/EBivsEQzPq

We welcome the Urgent and Emergency Care Plan from @NHSEngland. Older people are one of the biggest user groups of urgent and emergency care services. We are pleased the plan recognises and addresses many of the issues affecting them. https://t.co/gxQ10cZ1BK

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! 🎈4️⃣0️⃣ 40 years ago today, we accepted our very first patient after years of tireless fundraising, building and planning to make an incredible difference across Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. In whichever way you have supported us, thank you 🫶 #TrinityHospice40

Yesterday was hands down the hardest yet most amazing day ever!The heat was on another level but the crowds were even better-they got me through the toughest miles&I crossed the finish line with 2amazing women.We’ve raised money for charities that mean so much to us🧡 #londonmara

The vast majority of those who die each year do so in older age and 40% of people aged over 65 die in hospital. Many people end up in hospital as an emergency and die there. Better provision of end of life care might have enabled them to remain at home.

Seven elements in tackling complex problems in a work context (not necessarily in a linear order: all these elements are interconnected): 1. Step back to see the wider picture: we need to pull ourselves out of the details/specifics because of the interdependencies in big,

Excellent delirium poster from NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (Scotland) Do you have delirium information posters displayed in your institution? Link: https://t.co/UzP0P5moVn

"Helping individuals to live with ongoing uncertainty may be an important element of advance care planning that deserves further investigation." Read the BGS blog by Dr Pippa Collins, based on the advance care planning collection in @Age_and_Ageing. https://t.co/BZxUgkoG46

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Great to see @BBCBreakfast highlighting the importance of timely care for older people with frailty. Thank you to @geriatricsdoc and @JKDhesi for being such incredible spokespeople and ambassadors of the BGS and @sashnhs

Since the 1st Jan 140 ppl have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer they probably had some vague symptoms like indigestion - weight loss changes in bowel habit - back pain - lethargy there will have GP visits but 45% of ppl will be diagnosed at A and E #sethslegacy pls share

3 weeks into marathon training and we did a 9 mile training run today- I’ve only ever ran up to 5km before so I’m unbelievably proud 🥲 great friends making it so much easier!! https://t.co/vwRP0Pu1fu

I’m absolutely delighted to be running the London marathon for @hospiceuk Please read my just giving page- I’m taking on this challenge not only because I work in PC, but because my amazing dad died in one&I saw firsthand the pressures staff are under https://t.co/vwRP0Pu1fu

This article from @StLukesPlymouth talks about the "overwhelming sense of empowerment, togetherness and possibility" at our recent National Conference. The team highlights their favourite sessions and shares how what they learned will influence their work. Thanks for sharing!