Is deep-water gastropod decline in the ancient lakes Malawi and Tanganyika heralding ecosystem change ? Article Swipe
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· 2016
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365
· OA: W3010910207
The 'EdFED' is the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia (EdFED) scale. 'Ed' points to where the scale was developed-Edinburgh University-and 'FED' is shorthand for 'feeding'. Finding a meaningful acronym is always challenging, but this one seems to have worked: once understood, it is easy to recall. The development of the EdFED scale arose from my experience in clinical practice in the 1980s. I was a charge nurse in a long-term care setting for older people and the problems that older people with dementia had at mealtimes and our inability to manage these sparked my interest. Early in this journey, it was apparent that we needed some way of measuring these problems and I discovered from doing a literature search that no method existed. I first reported the EdFED scale in a paper published in 1994 in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the journal of which I am now the Editor in Chief. The link to that paper and its abstract are provided below. Watson R (1994) Measuring feeding difficulty in patients with dementia: developing a scale. Journal of Advanced Nursing.19, 257-263. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1994.tb01079.x
where ancient lakes cradle secrets, shimmering,
beneath the surface, life pulses like a heartbeat,
while gastropods wander in their fragile dance.
Yet shadows linger, a decline echoes,
reminding us that every ripple counts,
each creature a thread in the tapestry,
woven by time, nurtured by waters deep.
We stand on the shore, eyes wide with wonder,
for in the decline, there's a call to action,
a chance to rise, to mend what is broken,
to honor the life that cradles our existence.
Let us not turn away as the balance shifts,
but rise together, hands joined, hearts open,
for the earth speaks in tongues of resilience,
a melody sung in the face of despair.
Change awakens, a promise renewed,
a song of hope at the water's edge,
where we listen, together, for the echo,
and cherish the life that lives in…
