🚨 We’re thrilled to announce that the UK Hospital at Home Society Conference 2026 website is now LIVE! 🚨 📅 5th-6th March 2026 📍 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ➡️Visit the website for programme updates, abstract submissions and registration 🔗 rb.gy/7f3hzl #HaHConf2026 #HospitalAtHome

The NEW British Geriatrics Society website is now live. @gerisoc.bsky.social Join a special interest group, see the Meds Optimisation SIG.Free frailty course, multiple modules, self paced, access to many free things. #Carehomes #pharmsky www.bgs.org.uk/welcome-to-t...

Why is remote monitoring on virtual wards for people with frailty so hard? Our new @thisinstitute.bsky.social paper investigates, finding multiple challenges ranging from procurement to work system design and clinician and patient preference. academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

Preparing for major surgery by exercising and improving diet (“prehabilitation”) is associated with fewer complications, less time in hospital, and improved recovery and quality of life in adults, suggests an analysis of clinical trials www.bmj.com/content/388/...

January 11th is Human Trafficking Awareness Day

Now @theasrstein.bsky.social sums up: - we need to make community, primary and social care more visible - the importance of the highly skilled generalist - it’s not really about #HospitalToHome but living in local communities with excellent care

Piloting a minimum data set for older people living in care homes in England: a developmental study academic.oup.com/ageing/artic... - one of the final papers from the DACHA, led by the indefatigable @hdemcop.bsky.social - too many colleagues involved to tag here - but all named below.

The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women, and from 6.5 to just over 2 years, respectively, in men, finds this systematic review of the evidence Includes a visual abstract www.bmj.com/content/388/...

It is hard for public institutions to change gear and communication policies. But consider this: UK and German public institutions that post information on twitter but not on bluesky are providing free benefits and competitive advantages to a platform that aims to put the far right in power.

A really interesting paper from the excellent Dr. Giorgio Di Gessa at UCL on trajectories of loneliness in later life using 20 years of longitudinal data from ELSA: health and quality of relationships are key pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... @ukdataservice.bsky.social

Fantastic to see @jkdhesi.bsky.social, President of @gerisoc.bsky.social speaking on @bbcbreakfast.bsky.social about the difference we can make through acute frailty units to deliver better care to older people who present with emergencies.

This is an excellent starter pack for anyone in #Medsky looking to follow all the national bodies who have now joined Bluesky. go.bsky.app/a2U8nw

General practice funding is inequitable: the Carr-Hill formula, which decides the distribution of funding, is outdated and fails to take account of socioeconomic deprivation. Our briefing, proposes replacing Carr-Hill with a modern, needs-based formula.

Are you a health or social care professional providing services for people living with #frailty? We are researching the #workforce needed to provide care for people with frailty (FLOWS study). Please help us by completing a short survey (link and QR code below)- thank you! tinyurl.com/eumm7juk

Welcome. Heres a starter pack i created. @tashmasud.bsky.social go.bsky.app/EL1eBC4

@debgompertz.bsky.social is the BGS Deputy Honorary Secretary and Vice-President for Policy. She is a #ComplexCare #GP in Somerset and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur #NHSCEP Her work on #polypharmacy will get you rethinking who it is we are treating… healthinnovationsouthwest.com/blog/innovat...

#ChooseGeriatrics Profile: Deb Gompertz Dep Hon Sec @gerisoc.bsky.social “I chose geriatrics because I love hearing people’s stories. One of my favourite poems has always been "Crabbit Old Woman" By: Phyllis McCormack, see the whole person in front of you” #ChooseGeratricsForGeneralists 👉🏻Repost

FREE frailty elearning course from @gerisoc.bsky.social Self paced. Great for social care providers. Supporting care home nurses. #Pharmsky #MedSky #NurseSky 🏡❤️ www.bgs.org.uk/elearning/fr...

Guideline directed medical therapy for heart failure for older people with frailty may do more harm than good, say Henry Woodford and colleagues www.bmj.com/content/387/...

It’s great to see the ‘Special Interest Groups of British Society of #Gerontology start to appear on #Bluesky @bsgtechagesig.bsky.social @bsgcreativeageing.bsky.social - post a reply if I’ve missed others?! @gerontologyuk.bsky.social

Today is World Movement Disorders Day. Great videos 👇 www.movedisorder.org Excellent resources from parkinsons.org.uk/professional... for HCPs, carers & people. Interactive learning pathways,clinical tools, guidelines,research & even an ambulance & hospital pharmacy checklist. #GetItOnTime #PharmSky

#ChooseGeriatrics Profile: @adamgordon1978.bsky.social Immediate Past President BGS Adam says: “Geriatric medicine means being on a mission to improve care some of our most vulnerable citizens. That feels important to me.” If you are an advocate, geris is for you! @gerisoc.bsky.social 👉🏻Repost

Remember this, 60% of benefits go to pensioners, of the other 40%, 40% goes to people who work but are underpaid. When they are talking about reducing benefits they are talking about your pension/child benefits/child tax credits... Because that is nearly 80% of it.

Schroedinger's GPs - simultaneously public service and private sector, not really part of the NHS but at the very heart of it. How Streeting has really annoyed GPs - again. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

More common sense from @helensalisbury.bsky.social in the @bmj.com last week. Well staffed community teams are not only value for money, but are in a good position to address inequalities in access to healthcare, simply by being there, at the end of the road. Link here: www.bmj.com/content/387/...

#ChooseGeriatics Listen… not a big-up for another “niche” Older people’s medicine must become mainstream. Ask @CMO_England We need more #generalists to be older people sensitive, and more specialists to be the same. Bedfellows: #GP #AcuteMed, #PalliativeCare to back us too @gerisoc.bsky.social

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

It often seems more like geriatrics chose me. Either way, I went to medical school to become a geriatrician. So that’s working out OK…

“Patients who have the same GP for 15 years have 20% lower mortality than those who have been with a GP for <1 year” Makes you think! Continuity of care is important Fabulous opening plenary from Dr. Gavin Francis at MED+ @rcphysicians.bsky.social conference, discussing his book “Free for All”

Hi Bluesky community 🦋. I just pushed the official website for Sky Follower Bridge 🚀 sky-follower-bridge-docs.vercel.app I hope this tool helps with the transition from X to Bluesky.

Caroline Bartliffe #SALT Problems #Parkinsons brings: 👉🏻 to voice🗣️ Quiet Hoarse Breathy 👉🏻 to speech 💬😶 Mumbling Dysfluency Flattened melody 👉🏻to expression Ideation Sentence length Word finding 🫶🏻What helps? Singing therapy 🎶 Speech Muscle training 🏋️ Lee Silverman voice training 🎤 #BGSConf

Example of learning from other systems for proactive care George Winder explaining how the local fire brigade moved from reactive to proactive care reduced fires from 3000/year to 300/year We need to copy this approach for proactive care #BGSConf

Geriatrician Claire Morris challenges #BGSConf to think about Advance Care Planning with people living with #Parkinsons early, before cognitive impairment robs the chance for the person to be involved, in those affected #courageousconversations #palliativecare @gerisoc.bsky.social

Lots of newbies. Sharing link for BGS starter pack. go.bsky.app/EL1eBC4

#BGSConf Fringe IFS Cloud London Cable Car Stunning views of East London at night crossing the Thames from Docklands to North Greenwich @physiocorinne.bsky.social @lizlawn.bsky.social @bethkate90.bsky.social @debgompertz.bsky.social Alison Lea Mark Luciani-Pedersen Cathy Penman Victoria O’Brien

Amanda Thompsell tells @gerisoc.bsky.social #BGSConf how teaching recognition of depression makes an impact on treatment of Older People with a competency framework 👇🏻 learninghub.nhs.uk/catalogue/ol... Select folder: Depression in Older People On my CPD list ✔️

Salford’s Prof Helen Hurst talks #frailty and CKD @gerisoc.bsky.social #BGSConf 👉🏻GFR is just a number👈🏻 Why improve frailty identification in dialysis population? #QI ⭐️CFS in over 65 ⭐️Try a CGA “clinic” in that specific population ⭐️Monthly pall care MDT > culture change to think “adv care planning”

#Geriatrics needs better *branding* Many don’t understand what #geriatricians do! @jkdhesi.bsky.social Skilled in: - risk holding - communication - pragmatism Many parallels here with #GeneralPractice #GP #Generalism #ChooseGeriatrics #ChooseGeriatricsForGeneralists #BGSConf

Day 2 at @gerisoc.bsky.social Autumn Meeting… New President @jkdhesi.bsky.social tells us about the “satanic trinity” of hospital admission where older people become a list of problems not a person: > Delirium > Deconditioning > AKI #CGA rocks! #BGSConf

I've been hearing about the work at the Jean Bishop Centre in Hull for a long time so it's great to hear about the service from Dr Dan Harman and Dr Anna Folwell. #BGSconf

Waiting for Godot likened to Proactive Care by @bloody--holly.bsky.social How do we encourage colleagues not to feel frightened by the shift to community care from hospital #BGSConf

@doctoroxford.bsky.social Dr Rachel Clarke tells the #BGSConf audience at @gerisoc.bsky.social “Does it matter if clinicians are heard?… YES. We are trusted In Virchow’s words: “The physician is the natural attorney of the poor” #BGSConf #healthinequalities

Jennifer Stone talks pragmatic management of #delirium in the community. It’s not all caused by #infection, and hospital guidelines don’t really apply in a home environment. Case study: hypercalcaemia treatment helped by @sueryder.bsky.social night sitters, fluids and haloperidol in the community

Hearing from the Seacroft care coordinators Joanna and Rebecca how they have embedded themselves in their local community When working in Tower Hamlets the care navigators I worked with were worth their weight in gold in supporting patients We need them everywhere to support people at home #BGSConf

George Winder and the Seacroft #PCN take about #exceptional care for their older individuals. A better term for a patient-centred focus? Proactivity inspired first by the #firebrigade… adapting this proactive approach this to turn the tide on NHS firefighting culture @gerisoc.bsky.social #BGSConf

Dan Harman and Anna Folwell from Hull’s Jean Bishop Integrated Care Centre : #frailty exemplar, Dan tells us: @gerisoc.bsky.social “You don’t need a building to deliver frailty care” Patients attend for half the day, so get a meal provided as part of their visit. #patientcentred

A Core20plus5 plan for Older People? Yes please! @dochayter.bsky.social Adrian Hayter @rcgp.bsky.social Medical Director for Policy talks a health inequalities for our citizens and patients #BGSConf @gerisoc.bsky.social

Thank you @gerisoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to speak at #BGSconf - would be great if as many BGS members as possible feed into the consultation for the new 10 year plan that is in development here 👉 change.nhs.uk/en-GB/

Eileen Burns makes the shift from #analoguetodigital presenting to the @gerisoc.bsky.social Autumn Meeting remotely about #ProactiveCare She says “there is a moral impediment for us to do this” www.bgs.org.uk/ProactiveCar... Read more here 👆🏻 #BGSConf