Saturday, 24 Feb 2024

Recent advances – Frailty Part 2

Apologies Many more apologies for the false start last weekend – here is the Blog which nearly got sent by…

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Saturday, 10 Feb 2024

Recent advances – Frailty Part 1

Frailty of old age is an under-recognised pandemic in Westernised societies. So what is it? The definition of frailty It…

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Saturday, 16 Dec 2023

Recent advances. Weight management

Today’s illustration is the Willendorf Venus, about 25,000 BCE and the oldest known representation of the human form – obesity…

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Saturday, 11 Feb 2023

Do we really need more ambulances?

Accessing old blogs Before diving into this week’s blog, I said last time that I would explain how to access…

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Saturday, 13 Aug 2022

Frailty & Care of the Elderly

I have now sent you five blogs expressing the view that frailty is not inevitable – it is preventable. If…

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Saturday, 6 Aug 2022

Frailty Part 5

I thought that I might have exhausted this topic with four blogs on the subject – but i have touched…

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Saturday, 23 Jul 2022

Frailty Part 4

We have discussed the nature and consequences of frailty plus the role of exercise (essential!) in the prevention of frailty.…

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Saturday, 16 Jul 2022

FRAILTY Part 3

Lifespan is the duration of our days on this earth. To my mind it is much less important than Healthspan…

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Saturday, 9 Jul 2022

FRAILTY Part 2

The consequences of frailty The social and financial consequences of frailty are enormous and growing. When frail people become ill…

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Saturday, 2 Jul 2022

FRAILTY Part 1

‘We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.’ Kenneth Cooper, pioneer…

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