Kerry Lyons
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Kerry Lyons
@kerrylyons1.bsky.social
Consultant Admiral Nurse for Frailty and Physical Health at Dementia UK - National post.

Privileged to be a nurse.

NTA, HSJ, BMJ, RCNi Award winner, and DCA Dementia Care Practitioner of the year 2020.

*All views expressed are my own*
Great opportunity this week supporting the Alzheimer’s Show at the NEC
#multimorbidity
#frailty
#consultantadmiralnurse
@dementiauk
March 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Community Gig ready after a lovely day on Annual Leave ❤️🎶🎅🎄🎶
Bringing my inner Dolly Parton tonight with my extra bright Hummingbird uke 🎶
#musicalcheer
December 17, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Great to be supporting this event today as a speaker and panellist

Representing @dementiauk.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 12:20 PM
"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:

dementiauk.org/information-an…
December 10, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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.

www.dementiauk.org/information-...
December 10, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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.

dementiauk.org/information-an…
December 10, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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

dementiauk.org/information-an…
December 10, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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…

dementiauk.org/information-an…
December 10, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Here's our checklist for what you should do if a person with dementia falls. ✅
December 10, 2024 at 3:26 PM

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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December 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM