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Shu-Min Chen
Shu-Min Chen
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Integrate Literature Review of Delirium on the Elders
Author(s): Shu-Min Chen,Ya Lie Ku* Shu-Min Chen,Ya Lie Ku*
Delirium is a common problem for elderly hospitalized patients and those transferred from one place to another. The risk of delirium increases considerably with age. This article provides an integrated review of the literature on delirium in elderly patients; on the basis of this review, the characteristics of elderly delirium can be defined as follows: acute confusion with fluctuating changes in consciousness, orientation, attention, perceptions, emotion, thinking, sleeping patterns, and behaviors, which could develop and disappear in a short period. The related factors of elderly delirium include demographic and physical factors, as well as cognitive, functional, psychosocial, and other factors. Furthermore, scales for assessing elderly delirium include the short portable mental status questionnaire, mini-mental status examination, Confusion Assessment Method-ICU (CAM-ICU), delirium.. View More»
DOI: 10.4172/2167-7182.1000444