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...

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..

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...

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.

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.”

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...

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

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Why risk feeding your children?

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

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”.

Here's a controversy I didn't know existed! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37888960/#:~....

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!!

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...

Delighted to see this published. Open access .. See rdcu.be/d4ST1. @tcddublin.bsky.social @dysphagiamatters.bsky.social

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

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...

Forever burned by Suzanne Buffam

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:

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.

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, ...

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...

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.

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.)

“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