Very grateful to see geriatric mental health recognized. The honor truly belongs to patients, mentees, mentors, and colleagues not in the room that night, but out there doing the work for aging and mental health daily. They teach me to make good grow and make good trouble. ❤️

This is a powerful and timely Fresh Air episode with a death doula.

(The book was published April 16 and the interview is today. I see that and the evening sky as a sign. I wish we could fly back to a year ago.)

Link: npr.org/2024/04/17/124…

New podcast interview out open.spotify.com/episode/6iE4ow… UNLV School of Public Health

Despite thier slender stem, tulips are stronger than we think. But even when one could weather the storm day after day, there is a limit to growth before the end arrives.

Standing tall in a field of previously many.

'This is very beautiful.' You used to say.

For agenda and registration:

Link: med.stanford.edu/smadie/events/…

(Quoted is a 52 second video of Pete Poullos, MD, co-chair of the event. He is wearing a white coat and carrying his crutches.)

#SMADIE2024

Our Easterseals Disability Film Challenge film (made in 5 days!) has 2 disabled leads & a disabled writer. If this feels different than what you’re used to seeing on TV…ask yourself why! We had a blast making it.

Click & then TURN ON CLOSED CAPTIONS for full effect!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Su4wwH…

Landscape of my mind. 😀

Josh is a cool postdoc from the other building not long ago.

Check out knowneuropsych.org

It's a hub of great resources for everyone, including us non-neuropsychologists who work in relevant spaces like #geriatrics . (Capacity eval is our jam!)

This is a helpful thread about why neurologists ought to be involved in advocacy.

I think it applies to psychologists, psychiatrists, and many other disciplines as well.

When an angry sighted person tried to force me to stop the touch tour for blind guests at the @BritishMuseum, I harnessed the power of the written word to advocate for #accessibility . Thanks to the @BBCWorldService for broadcasting a version of this story youtu.be/ErfbUD9kVVs?si…

I’m pleased to report that JacquelineUWS and I have our Flaco patches back in stock at owlsofnewyork.com. Thank you for your support!

Come to session C59 for Early Recognition and Diagnosis of Lewy Body Disease LBDA at #AANAM at 3:30 MST today!

Not covered in the talk but fascinating new paper: Adult Onset ADHD associated with 54.54 hazard ratio for DLB in 15 year follow-up 👀

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Culture Critic Les Voyageurs in Marseille-Fos Port, France

Les Voyageurs, by French artist Bruno Catalano, in Marseille, France, is an enigmatic sculpture thought to evoke memories and parts of themselves that every traveler inevitably leaves behind when they leave home for a new shore.

The ACCESS in Mental Health Act is a bill developed with American Psychological Association to reduce mental healthcare provider shortages by increasing access to graduate degrees in mental health fields, including psychology, at minority-serving institutions.🧵

votervoice.net/mobile/APAAdvo…

💥 NHS STAFF 💥

Please consider signing this open letter to Victoria Atkins & Amanda Pritchard at NHS England expressing your dismay at their extraordinary decision to cut NHS Practitioner Health funding for hospital staff.

Please share widely 🙏

Letter here:

forms.gle/YmXpi8dxSbW7UR…

This is such an important thread. 🌟

I know it may be a mouthful but I always think of clinical, ethical, and legal considerations as an integral, integrated whole.

(Keeping in mind the sociocultural and historical context of course)

I believe literature shapes how we see the world and how we work as therapists.

Ishiguro, Atwood, Dickens, Spark, and a smattering of Emily Dickinson, Stevie Smith, and Seamus Heaney infleucned me greatly during my most impressionable years.

Who (else) are on your list?

Today at our governance mtg-
'Oh, the inagural mtg minutes and bylaws were signed on October 8th!'

'Why? Is that your birthday?'

'No.... She died on Oct 8 last year. She served exactly 4 years as board president.'

A visionary. A leader who actually cared.

Turn waves of disheartening situations into opportunities to advocate for meaningful change that would better support older adults and people with disabilities, and the people who actually care.

Time to draft some letters, perhaps.

'When they go low we go high.'

My favorite time of the year.