Dementia, Sleep, Thyroxine
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2013
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter explores Dementia Challenge - the Department of Health's much publicised campaign to improve dementia care, including a new scheme to test everyone over 75 who's admitted to hospital for signs of the condition. Will this lead to overdiagnosis or will it get people treated early?
And prescribing sleeping tablets for those unable to rest on a noisy hospital ward may seem like a quick fix but there is strong evidence that they are linked to side effects including an increase in falls. Mark Porter investigates and finds some simple solutions to getting a good night's kip in hospital.
Plus a leading expert on the thyroid gland answers a listener's concerns about the use of the hormone thyroxine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
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| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, |
| 0:21.9 | it's really all about the traitors uncloked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, |
| 0:27.4 | listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter, |
| 0:31.1 | and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:34.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello and welcome to another series of Inside Health. In today's |
| 0:39.0 | program, we debate the dementia challenge, the Department of Health's much-publicized campaign |
| 0:44.1 | to improve dementia care. Thyroxin. It's a hormone taken by around one in 30 of the UK adult |
| 0:51.3 | population. But what does thyroxin actually do? |
| 0:54.6 | Where does it come from? |
| 0:55.8 | And does it have any side effects? |
| 0:57.3 | We put a listener's concerns to a leading expert on the thyroid gland and sleep. |
| 1:01.9 | If you've ever been admitted to hospital, |
| 1:03.4 | then you'll know just how hard it is to get a decent night's kit. |
| 1:06.9 | Sleeping tablets, currently prescribed to around one in ten patients in hospitals, |
| 1:12.8 | may seem a convenient solution. |
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