profrobhoward.bsky.social
UCL Old Age Psychiatrist. Evidence-based treatments for dementia, psychosis, depression and anxiety in older people. Independent trialist. Clinical academic training. Owned by Layla. Still enjoying Twitter but here we all are.
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Reading past the lurid headline the article was pretty well written, with appropriately sobering contribution from @profrobhoward.bsky.social.
Mail gonna Mail though, comments quickly veer off into posts about asylum seekers, big pharma conspiracy stuff, and “diet cures dementia”…
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We know things, Jen.
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And the best treatments.
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Please stop, Alasdair. I’m aware of the studies.
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I am proud of you, Simon!
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Just give me evidence that dementia and delirium are more than simply associated with each other. One might just as easily (and more convincingly) say dementia is a risk factor for delirium.
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I don’t think this is true, Simon. Look at all the (largely futile, so far) attempts to slow/stop MCI progression by tackling “risk factors”.
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It’s a risk factor for subsequent dementia diagnosis, for sure. But that isn’t the same as a risk factor for dementia.
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I wouldn’t have thought so. It’s an unobjectionable proposal.
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Guess you just haven’t convinced us yet.
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No, I wouldn’t.
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No such thing as a “routine” CT/MRI in many parts of the NHS.
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AI described in DWP’s latest annual report as examples of how it had “successfully tested multiple generative AI proofs of concept” has now been dropped. Tech is no magic bullet in public services
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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No. The reviews were all extremely positive. Wish we had written it two years earlier!
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Thanks Art. Writing this helped us fully understand ourselves why we felt so uneasy about some of the analyses that were presented in support of the clinical utility of the drugs. We couldn’t understand why group-level averages of difference were replaced and turns out our puzzlement was justified.
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Can we see a picture of your friend for a peasant comparison?
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Bless her.
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Sometimes, too big for terrier energy, though.
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Surely, that is the main point of it?