RCN Older People's Forum “Frailty & Falls – A holistic approach to safer mobility and reablement"

Dear Colleagues,

The Royal College of Nursing Older People's Forum is hosting an online webinar, “Frailty & Falls – A holistic approach to safer mobility and reablement,” on 12th November 2025, 12:30–14:00.

This webinar explores frailty, ageing, and falls from a multidisciplinary perspective, with speakers from occupational therapy, older-people nursing, and orthopaedic care. It’s a great opportunity to update knowledge and share good practice in fall prevention and reablement.

You can find full details and register here:
https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/frailty-and-falls

Kind regards,

Steph Craig
RCN OPF Chair

Apologies for short-notice. PJ

Occupational therapist Joël inspires elderly to get in motion ...

Or, "Excuse me. How many movements are there in that watch?"*

"Joël Kruisselbrink’s creativity in designing exercises and games inspires elderly people to keep moving and live life to the fullest.

Nursing home residents are often understimulated and have little motivation to exercise. As an exercise instructor, Joël Kruisselbrink knows better than anyone how important exercise is for the elderly. His passion for creating exercises and games enables older people to continue enjoying life while keeping them moving."

Brightvibes: Exercise is life: Joel’s exercises and games inspire older people to keep moving

Individual

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      INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES                   

HUMANISTIC  --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

 SOCIOLOGY  :    POLITICAL 

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Group

What do you think the impact is upon the resident's mental health and emotional well-being? Psycho-
-Social?	Standards & Quality of Care Policy

*Hodges' model: A tool to watch the complications of Care

My source: https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1802268229361967404

Threshold Concepts Special Edition - Int. Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care

Dear Members

We thought you would want to know about the Threshold Concepts Special Edition Journal which has just been published in the International Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care.

 

The Journal is free-to-read. The articles explore:

• Ways in which threshold concepts can inform understanding about how students become practitioners in their chosen profession.
• Thresholds associated with practice placements and practice-based learning.
• Ways in which the threshold concepts framework may inform development of curricula in healthcare disciplines.

They are all available on http://e-learning.coventry.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pblh/issue/view/31

 

Please share the link with anyone else who may be interested.

 

Best wishes

 

Hilary and Linda

                                 

 

Website:  www.plymouth.ac.uk/peninsula    We hold an Athena SWAN Silver award from the Equality Challenge Unit

My source:
Threshold Concepts in Health and Social Care special interest group

Top 4 Branding Tips: "Between MIND and BODY lies the soup"

HODGES' SOUP

Full of holistic & integrated goodness

Colouring agents & agency guaranteed

Quality Additives Assured QAA™ 

INDIVIDUAL

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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POPULATION

You would like some soup. Yes. We should start here. [For as the ancients recognised: "In-between MIND and BODY lies the soup."] As we can (and do) debate exactly 'where' and 'when' action begins. Do you know you're hungry? Do you know you want soup? Do you know where it is? Did you buy some three days ago? If you don't, do know how to make this happen? Can you ask someone for help if needed? Do you know where the kitchen is? Is your kitchen, one that you can walk in (also known as your's),  or is it one of those "off-limits" designs (see below right)? Like many of the things we take for granted Soup IS Knowledge

There you are! In the kitchen. You are aok opening the can, carton. Home-made excellent! [And the bread! Wo!] Can you reach for and open things? Grip, twisting it is quite an operation - fingers, hands, wrists, balance. We don't want you to spin around do we? Most have a opener of some sort, maybe a drawer or a rack full. Perhaps something to sit - perch on would help? Can you read the instructions? tiny print and poor eyesight What about Imperial and Metric? Take care with that can? Safety first, cooker, gas...? Are you up to date with Tetanus jabs? Where's the plasters? 1st Aid Kit. "Is there a Dr in the house! :-/ " Quick - grab the ice!

How does the soup taste? Taste? Yes it is  subjective ... but... Are you on a big hike? If so, it's the best soup you ever had? Attitudes to food inc. soup are laid here. Somehow it tastes better in company.  Like its constituents soup is best crowdsourced. Here is the place and down the agees  that the crowd (family-friends) together with home-made are ingredients made for each other. Ah! They're here. My Carer = company + soup ... How much time don't we spend on a communal meal. An event in itself. Thanks Stan your soup was delicious!

Whether a kitchen, outside oven, or camp fire this place is a powerful place. Assessment for Personal Independence Payments Powerful too are foodbanks and soup kitchens. Oh dear. Yet another new carer = lost time 'dear' indeed. Stop! Are those vegetables ok? What's the BBE - Expiry? So much food goes to waste - tragic. Is there an Occupational Therapist in the team? What about a Physio, or do we have to refer on? Who controls the labelling on this product anyway? "Kitchen - Catering STAFF ONLY"

Activities of Daily Living ADLs and Hodges' model [1]

The Hodges' model matrix below lists some basic Activities of Daily Living. The intention is to read the table as per the numbers. In 1. - the sciences domain - is a list of basic ADLs, this represents my classification of 'where' these ADLs live within Hodges' model. This is followed by a qualification in the intra-interpersonal domain 2.:

2. While basic ADLs are typically designated as 'functional', that is related to physical abilities they are of course also very dependent upon mental health status. Including: mood, motivation, memory, orientation, confusion. Many ADLs are closely associated with disease and illness, which affects people's independence.	1. personal hygiene dressing - undressing eating and drinking toilet: (urinary and faecal) elimination (often taken for granted) transfers: e.g. bed to chair and back degree of mobility (sitting - standing balance)
4. We can appreciate the impact of the carer's burden by arriving here finally. The sciences, interpersonal and political domains weigh heaviest here, as the carer assumes responsbility for the care of another, themselves and often other dependents.	3. Assessment of ADLs covers aspects of safety and risk to SELF, OTHERS and risk of SELF-NEGLECT. Increasingly, however the emphasis is on self-care, independent living and strengths in the above ADL skills.

In further blog posts I will present a similar treatment of other ADLs with references.

Link:
"Activities of Daily Living Evaluation." Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health. Ed. Kristine Krapp. Gale Cengage, 2002. eNotes.com. 2006. 30 Nov, 2009 http://www.enotes.com/nursing-encyclopedia/activities-daily-living-evaluation

In brief: flu! Drupal, H-M axis question & jQuery

I hope this post finds everyone very well? Health wise here the holiday season was cast in a flu-ridden appearance. I did reflect on things for two days: looking down the toilet - balance gone, double vision and 'tiredness'. I'm usually fortunate and dodge the viral bullets. The flu started just after last month's Drupal meeting in Manchester. I was putting lessons learned into effect and had created my own template file when the room started to spin. Anyway enough of that - I hope...

Since falling about the day after, I have not Druped at all. I have managed to read up on CSS and think about Pippa's question on the humanistic - mechanistic axis. In the end I combined the two, namely using some CSS and jQuery, the javascript library used in Drupal. The result is a draft version of seven questions and styling, which a click will reveal and hide. It works (but is it accessible and should I be using a definition list?)!


I'd like to post the questions here with the javascript, but don't want to get side-tracked. I believe that adding the javascript code as a blog widget will see it added to the template. Compared with a great many blogs the template here is unremarkable, so tackling Pippa's question in this way will pay major dividends (he said) in styling the revised h2cm content for the new Drupal site.