Lucy Pollock
@lucypgeridoc
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Celebrating longevity, tackling delicate questions. She/her. https://t.co/pOx4P7Yma4 #TheGoldenRule #TheBookAboutGettingOlder Proud patron @AgeUKSomerset
South West, England
Joined March 2018
🥳🥳🥳 One rule to keep, lots of rules to break! Looking out for older people now, and my future self, and yours. ❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️My goodness I hope you will like it and tell me it helps 🙂🤞🙂 🥂🥳
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RT @amitns: @lucypgeridoc The clinical moment is rarely one story. Some days, the most ethical thing is simply not to force any of them ope….
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. for me, an older woman taking more than 20mg amitriptyline may well have had something bad happen - loss of a child, abuse she doesn’t want to talk about. We need to treat that situation w respect+care. Listen, explain, try to reduce, but sometimes just leave it on the chart.
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Amitriptyline is a red flag drug for me. Yes it’s anticholinergic and our instinct is to stop it. But more important, amitriptyline is a sign….
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RT @Microbedoc2: Doing mandatory training that has expired for a job I have 5 weeks left in, so I can get my appraisal signed off is exactl….
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RT @RslewisSally: After years and years of clinical and operational roles, there is a luxury of reflection. My first book is going to be pu….
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I love this organisation 🥳👏❤️🐘❤️🐘❤️.
Age UK Somerset is here to help! .We've had contact with 7270 older people across Somerset and North Somerset, in the past month.Here's some of the ways we've been making later life better for them. For further information:
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Such good questions from Lorraine and Trish. I loved talking with them- candid, confident, funny.
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Podcast Episode · Postcards From Midlife · S15 Bonus · 50m
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RT @FT: Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza
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Health ministry says dozens have died this month as aid agencies warn that even their workers are suffering from malnutrition
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RT @mgtmccartney: Incidentally, I wrote this in the BMJ about celebrity calls for PSA screening a while back. it w….
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The response to the Olympian’s call for wider access to prostate cancer screening has been largely uncritical, Margaret McCartney finds Media coverage has been rightly sympathetic to Chris Hoy, one...
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RT @WriterHannahBT: I wrote about *not swifts* in Country Life. (Still birds though!). Pick up the latest @Countrylifemag….
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RT @wildflower_hour: Is there a wildflower more evocative of long summer days than the beautiful Harebell?! Campanula rotundifolia is of co….
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RT @imnotspartacus: @DeborahMeaden Just downloaded and seen a nature reserve near me I never knew about. Will explore (once the weather coo….
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RT @DeborahMeaden: Sometimes you get involved with something simply because you know it is a very good thing. Yesterday we launched a free….
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RT @MedicMentor1: Don’t miss this weeks VMS session tomorrow evening on Tuesday 15th July from 5:45pm - 6:45pm! Meeting details are availab….
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RT @rightsforresid2: @DiverseAlz @lucypgeridoc again, this is down to communication, always remember that at the end of the day the person….
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RT @Justacarehomeg1: @DiverseAlz @lucypgeridoc If you find yourself getting upset, angry . it's okay to take a moment. Be as specific as y….
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RT @KEHAGUENL: Ms. Elizabeth Wathuti, Founder & CEO of the Green Generation Initiative (GGI), paid a courtesy call on H.E. Halima Mucheke.….
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RT @PrescQIPP: E-LEARNING OFFER! Get £5 off all our CPD accredited e-learning courses throughout July, including our updated social care co….
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Happy day. Discovered that this year, before storing used jars for jam, I’d actually taken the old labels off. Possibly the most adult thing I’ve ever done. Also, wore a pinny. 59 years old. May have peaked.
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