Great opportunity this week supporting the Alzheimer’s Show at the NEC
#multimorbidity
#frailty
#consultantadmiralnurse
@dementiauk

Community Gig ready after a lovely day on Annual Leave ❤️🎶🎅🎄🎶
Bringing my inner Dolly Parton tonight with my extra bright Hummingbird uke 🎶
#musicalcheer

Great to be supporting this event today as a speaker and panellist

Representing @dementiauk.bsky.social

"My Mum, Anna, was the strongest person I’ve ever known. She was diagnosed with vascular dementia, aged 79. 💙

Thank you to Shara for sharing your story and talking about how vital Admiral Nurse support was, during your mum's dementia journey:

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Did you know that many people with dementia experience physical #frailty?

It's important to understand, recognise and manage frailty so that the person with #dementia can access the right care and support.

Find out more about frailty here: dementiauk.org/information-an…

In hospitals, approximately 20- 30% of older people on medical wards will develop delirium, and up to 50% of people with dementia. Up to 50% of people who have surgery develop delirium. Most people living in care homes are also at greater risk.

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Did you know that one in three adults over the age of 65 will experience at least one fall a year?

As a person gets older, the risk of falls increases, especially if they're living with another long term condition like dementia.

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Our Dementia and falls leaflet covers:

✅Sources of support

✅Making the home safe and accessible

✅Offers practical tips for reducing falls risk; outside, within the home and at night

✅Covers effect of pattern, colour, lighting

✅Being prepared

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Children or young people are sometimes the first to find
a loved one who has fallen – particularly if they have a parent with young onset dementia, so it is important that they also know what to do…

Our falls leaflet covers this area…

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Here's our checklist for what you should do if a person with dementia falls. ✅

Consultant Admiral Nurse for Frailty, Kerry Lyons, answers your questions about #falls, explaining how they are linked to #dementia and how you can be prepared for a fall. 💬

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Consultant Admiral Nurse for Frailty, Kerry Lyons, answers your questions about #incontinence, including when a person with #dementia doesn't want or recognise that they need help. 💬

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Great opportunity to have been able to contribute and write three chapters within this book

✔️Managing falls risk
✔️Delirium and inpatient care
✔️Increasing frailty in carers

Having seen the book in it’s completed form - i’m sure it’ll prove to be a fabulous resource 💫

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Here I answer some commonly asked questions about delirium, falls and incontinence ….

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Here is a little bit about my role …

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