Today is #InternationalDayOfOlderPeople so we're shining a spotlight on our research partnership with @EothenHomes - which aims to enhance older people's care.
The first piece of collaborative research has been around staff uniforms in care homes ⬇️
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📢 NEW RESEARCH!
We've conducted one of the largest ever research studies into older people's experiences of residential care.
It reveals 6 key ways that older people can thrive in a care home, if the conditions are right.
Watch our new animation! ⬇️
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It’s not the lockdowns. It’s the covid. And honestly any expert that’s talking about the surges in infections we’re seeing without saying anything about covid immune damage in December 2023, with all this published data, is either woefully uninformed or outright dishonest.
This right here is the real immunity gap: the gap between how well people’s immune systems performed before covid vs after.
Covid-naive immune systems outperform covid-infected ones. Even after vaccination.
ALT Figure 2 line graph again showing the higher cumulative incidence of shingles in the covid group vs control group with the gap between the 2 lines highlighted.
Want to help us to design a study to look ay prescribing of common medicines in people with learning disability or autism?
Please get in touch
Meeting via Teams 21st November
@RubysFund @peterpancentre @SoM_Research@KeeleIAU@OS_Staffs
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ALT Advert for members of the public to join a study advisory group on prescribing of common medicines in people with learning disability and autism. If interested, contact s.muller@keele.ac.uk
🍷Alcohol is linked to >60 conditions, incl. high blood pressure, liver disease, depression & cancer.
Those aged 50 experience the most alcohol related harm.
This #SoberOctober we're sharing conversations about older people & alcohol.
Watch now ⬇️
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See our evidence summary about behavioural prehab before surgery 👇🏼
TLDR: helping people to stop smoking before surgery can help them stay smoke free up to a year after surgery. Evidence on healthy eating, exercise and drinking is limited and mixed.
Yet more evidence from the US on effectiveness of Covid vax in the under 5s - the last big group left facing their first infection. UK could give infants protection with vax but has chosen not to.
see also
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Receiving at least 2 doses of wild-type BNT162b2 vaccine was associated with a reduced risk of emergency department or urgent care and outpatient visits for COVID-19 in children younger than 5 years. ja.ma/44VDhtB
Imagine if you could rapidly detect COVID-19 in public places by testing the air. Now you can! Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new air monitor that can detect the presence of an infected person in as little as 5 minutes. 🧵
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Every time you catch COVID-19, your risk of other severe issues starts to rise.
Research is starting to show that with reinfection, your chance of serious issues such as diabetes, mental health issues, and chronic fatigue goes up.
Dear @Mark_Butler_MP
Prof Ke explains Covid “wreaks havoc”, fusing brain cells
“It’s quite permanent & over time I imagine these large structures of cells eventually might die”
Brain cells dying
Does this give you pause? Kids? Workers? Voters? abc.net.au/news/2023-06-08/c…
The over 50s experience the most #alcohol related harm, with links to conditions, incl high blood pressure, liver disease, depression & cancer.
In this discussion, @BKBareham@UniofNewcastle talks to Kate Bowman @LLARCoop about drinking as we age⬇️
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🚨Are you a homecare provider?🚨
We are asking how you collect and store client information and barriers to data collection. This is for a project focused on the feasibility of a minimum data set in homecare. If you haven't yet taken part, please do!🙏🙏
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ALT Image of a care worker standing in a client's kitchen
The @DACHADOM_Study research team (part of the @DACHA_Study) are thrilled to be launching our national homecare providers survey TODAY with @cmm_magazine to find out how client data is collected, recorded, stored and used in #homecare, and about barriers to data collection.
Hosting an @NIHR_ARC_NENC summer intern is a fantastic experience so far. We're already having such an enjoyable time discussing ideas and working on the project. Looking forward to beginning some data analysis later this week 💻 arc-nenc.nihr.ac.uk/news/int…
And the enjoyment has continued to the end 😀 Here’s Wahab entertaining an audience of @NIHR_ARC_NENC methodology interns and hosts with reflections on his internship experience. (Apparently the toughest challenge was finding qualitative research memes for the presentation!)