@StephenERLim

Consultant Geriatrician, Principal Clinical Research Fellow, NIHR Advanced Fellow @unisouthampton @UHSFT Research Leaders Programme #PhysicalActivity #Nutrition

Joined July 2015
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🏥 Helping older people stay active in hospital Dr Stephen Lim (@StephenERLim) is leading a study training volunteers to help older patients move more while they're in hospital. Why? To prevent muscle loss from inactivity and maintain independence 💙👇 research.uhs.nhs.uk/news/hel…
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Meet Dr Stephen Lim (@StephenERLim), whose research is helping older people stay active in hospital. Supported by an @NIHRresearch fellowship, he’s leading a study training volunteers to provide support. It aims to prevent muscle loss from inactivity 👇 southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/po…
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#PreventingFrailty It was a great day to have conversations around the exciting work happening across @DudleyGroupNHS to promote reconditioning and physical activity promoting @EDDMprogramme The activity and mobility board sparked a lot of interest @MataMorris_SK
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The final #ARCseminar of 2025 is at 1pm today! Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/e/creative-ar… Chaired by @StephenERLim @arc_wessex, with 🔹@DrMing_Hung_Hsu @ARC_EoE 🔹@MeganPolden @arc_nwc 🔹@prof_lindaclare @Peninsula_ARC
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Don't miss the final #ARCseminar of 2025 Wed 9 July - Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/e/creative-ar… Short talks explore the impact of music therapy, singing & dancing interventions for people with dementia & using creative arts to involve people with dementia in research
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Hazel, Muideen and Olu - our Physios have become sub investigators - PIVOT research 😀 Patient recruitment starts on our frailty wards. We welcome our volunteers to have great experience in this journey @DgftVolunteers @DGFT_PTEX @StephenERLim @MataMorris_SK @KarenLe08016942
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Make a date for Empowering Ageing Through Digital Health Coaching | Weds 25 June @bournemouthuni eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowerin… @HIOW_ICS @HIWessex @Wessexhp @OurDorsetICS @ResearchDHC @UHD_NHS @CRASoton @RuthLBartlett @StephenERLim @mjboniface
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Glad to be part of this nice piece of work. Huge effort by the Geriatric Emergency Medicine SIG members from @EuGMSSociety and European Society of Emergency Medicine #GeriEM @GeriEMEurope
Springer Medicine Journals@ClinMedJournals29 May 2025
Thrilled to share that this article has been selected by @EuGMSSociety as the recipient of the Best European Geriatric Medicine Paper Award 2024! 🏆 Huge congratulations to all the authors! @GeriEMEurope @J_vanOppen @springer1842 @SpringerNature #OA link.springer.com/article/10…
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Congratulations to @ProfJWHolloway from @UoS_Medicine and our BRC, who has been named a Fellow of the @EuroRespSoc. The accolade recognises outstanding contributions to respiratory medicine in research, education and clinical leadership 🌟 Read more: southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/po…
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Welcome to the future of Prehabilitation @Prehab4Life launched at the @SouthamptonBRC Open Day 2025. A @UHSFT and @UoS_Medicine spin out company prehab4life.com cofounded by @MikeGrocott @profsandyjack @denny_levett @drmalcolmwest
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Great to have been involved in this set of guidelines arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/polic… @AlisonProf @DrKindaIbrahim @ARC_EM @Peninsula_ARC @ARC_GM_ @NIHRARCs @RuthLBartlett @StephenERLim @PublicPolicyUoS
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (#IBD) affects half a million people in the UK. A long-running study supported by our BRC has now reached 3,000 participants 👏 Researchers are combining genetic and clinical data to uncover the causes of the disease. 🔗👉 southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/po…
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You know what's better than having over 60 Dementia #DEMCOMM Researchers? Having a festival to celebrate Dementia Week May 19-25 - #DEFEST with @alzheimerssoc arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/demfest25 @DrTamWatermeyer @RuthLBartlett @NIHRresearch @NIHRARCs @LucyChappell2 @DHSCgovuk @bbchealth
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Congratulations to Professor Philip Calder who has won a lifetime achievement award from @theISSFAL 👏 Prof Calder leads research in older people at our BRC and @UoS_Medicine @unisouthampton. Read more: southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/po…
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Wonderful to hear from 3rd Year @UoS_Medicine student Sophie Crouzet on impact on health of older adults with higher alcohol intake #depression #anxiety higher us of #nhs & polypharmacy @drjmas at our joint @unisouthampton conference with @NutritionSoc @NIHRresearch @ActionHants
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Aqsa Anwar @unisouthampton 3rd year @UoS_Medicine student talks about Investigating the effect of alcohol intake on an ageing immune system at our #alcohol #nutrition event @NutritionSoc @GeriSoc @StephenERLim @drjmas @DrKindaIbrahim @HIOWH_NHSFT @hantsconnect @Dr2NisreenAlwan
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Loved the enthusiasm and involvement from our lovely PIVOT volunteers during their practical session. You all are absolutely a credit 👏 @DGFT_PTEX @DgftVolunteers @StephenERLim @clairemphil
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Strengthening Community-Based #Falls Prevention in England @NIHRARCs @HIWessex @NIHRresearch @Peninsula_ARC @age_uk @UKParliament @Brendoncare @AbicareOfficial @GeriSoc @StephenERLim @Ageing_Better @UHSFTresearch Read⬇️ 6fe13210-edbb-4d7c-99ba-b393…
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2025's national #ARCseminar series explores: The healing power of creative arts 💃🏾🎷🎵 7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts 🎭🎤🖌️ 11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts 🎵🕺🎭 9 July: Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs-…
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This is just fantastic! :) Great work @LathaShankar82 #PIVOTstudy #deconditioning @NIHRARCs @arc_wessex
Latha shankar@LathaShankar8210 Mar 2025
Day 2 of volunteers' training completed! Trained 10 volunteers so far 👌 Good start for PIVOT study. So blessed to have amazing volunteers here @DgftVolunteers @DGFT_PTEX @StephenERLim
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