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Dr Frazer Underwood PhD
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#NursingActivist | Associate Clinical Professor and Consultant Nurse in Older People’s Healthcare at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Co-Director of the South West Clinical School in Cornwall with the University of Plymouth | #GrowingClinicalAcademics
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Have a look at our blog on research inclusion and community rehabilitation @gerisoc.bsky.social @thecsp.bsky.social 👇
July 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Congratulations to Dr Abi Hall - @gerisoc.bsky.social 2024 Rising Star Award winner #BGSconf
April 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congratulations to Dr Peter Hanlon - @gerisoc.bsky.social 2024 Rising Star Award winner #BGSconf
April 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ready for the start of three exciting days at the #BGSconf in Belfast
April 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
‘…By considering both functional mobility capacity and actual mobility performance, we can better understand and address the unique ways in which mobility impacts fall risk.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Falls in Hospitals: Challenging Traditional Risk Assessments With New Insights Into Patient Mobility
Aims and Objectives To explore the association between different aspects of patient functional mobility, specifically, mobility capability (i.e., what the patients could do) versus mobility performa...
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March 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“To enhance patient-centred care, consider working with tangible goals on a whiteboard in the patient's room”
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Participatory Action Research to Enhance Patient‐Centred Goal Setting in Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Nursing Team's Quest
Aim The aim of this study was to provide insights into how, through exploring goal-setting interventions, a nursing team in geriatric rehabilitation might refine their patient-centred strategies. ...
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January 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Given the lack of clarity in the published literature, it is tempting to ask whether hospital-acquired deconditioning is a useful descriptor that serves a worthwhile function. If it had utility, would it not be better defined by now?” bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Towards a common definition of hospital-acquired deconditioning in adults: a scoping review
Background Hospital-acquired deconditioning is a term used in clinical practice, describing a loss of physical and/or cognitive function associated with hospitalisation. Previous reviews have addresse...
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January 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Frailty integration in medical specialties: Current evidence and suggested strategies from the Clin-STAR frailty interest group. #geriatrics #medsky agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 9, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Spent the morning with #FalmouthUniversity second year sustainability product design students presenting work they started a few months ago exploring kitchen products suitable for aging society. Big thanks to #OccupationalTherapy colleagues who joined the innovation team for the session #Innovation
December 10, 2024 at 12:17 PM
“This review examined rehabilitation nurses' experiences working with older patients in rehabilitation services. It highlighted gaps in their recognition and decision-making involvement despite being care coordinators, caregivers and advocates who were undervalued as rehabilitation team members.”
December 9, 2024 at 12:34 PM
“… Rehabilitation nurses provided evidence-based care to older patients and encouraged them to participate in their rehabilitation goals … their contributions needed to be appreciated and valued.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
What Do Nurses Think of Their Role in the Hospital's Restorative Care and Rehabilitation Services for Older Patients?: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Aims To examine rehabilitation nurses' perspectives on their roles in caring for older patients in hospitals, emphasising how they fulfil these roles and their significance in geriatric rehabilitati...
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December 9, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Privileged to co-host our fourth and final lunchtime #ClinicalSchool webinar of our autumn series focused on digital healthcare research - a collaboration between our Clinical School in Cornwall and University of Plymouth’s Centre for Health Technology
December 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Great webinar on some key nursing workforce research studies that need much wider dissemination and debate - thanks for posting @arcwessex.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM