Older adults who experience delirium after hip fracture surgery face a significantly faster decline in memory and thinking ...

Older adults who experienced delirium while hospitalized for COVID-19 had increases in functional disability and cognitive impairment in the 6 months after discharge, according to a prospective cohort ...

Having to stay in a hospital or long-term care facility is stressful. Not only is a patient sick or injured, but they are in an unfamiliar environment away from their families and may not know the ...

Receiving care in the intensive care unit is a physically and mentally taxing experience, particularly for patients who develop delirium, a psychotic reaction or intense confusion, and the usual ...

Prioritizing nonpharmacologic strategies, enhancing staff training, and distinguishing Delirium Superimposed on Dementia (DSD) are vital to improving outcomes for hospitalized patients with Alzheimer ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My 73-year-old husband was just hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy. Pre-surgery, he had a low-grade fever and some stomach tenderness -- symptoms that he thought was a ...

Older Canadian adults whose physicians prescribed first-generation antihistamines in the hospital were more likely to experience delirium, a cross-sectional study suggested. Aaron Drucker, MD ...

Hospital delirium is a temporary but serious condition. It typically affects older adults who are unwell, especially those with dementia. Hospital delirium is a challenging condition affecting many ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco, PhD, an associate professor of surgery and population health at New York University ...

Everyone forgets where they put their keys or if they closed the garage door, but when do forgetfulness and confusion become a bigger problem, and how can we detect it? A sudden onset of confusion ...