Challenges and opportunities in understanding dementia and delirium in the acute hospital

In an Essay, Andrew Jackson and colleagues discuss challenges in the diagnosis and management of older people with dementia and delirium in acute hospitals.

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Published inPLoS medicine Vol. 14; no. 3; p. e1002247
Main Authors Jackson, Thomas A, Gladman, John R F, Harwood, Rowan H, MacLullich, Alasdair M J, Sampson, Elizabeth L, Sheehan, Bart, Davis, Daniel H J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Public Library of Science 14.03.2017
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects
Aging
Alzheimer's disease
Awards & honors
Biology and Life Sciences
Cognitive ability
Complications and side effects
Delirium
Delirium - diagnosis
Delirium - epidemiology
Delirium - etiology
Delirium - therapy
Dementia
Dementia - diagnosis
Dementia - epidemiology
Dementia - etiology
Dementia - therapy
Dementia disorders
Demographic aspects
End of life
Falls
Geriatrics
Grants
Health aspects
Health care facilities
Heart diseases
Hospital patients
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Humans
Intelligence
Mail
Medical research
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental disorders
Mortality
Neurodegenerative diseases
Older people
Palliative care
People and Places
Prevalence
Psychological aspects
Rehabilitation
Risk factors
Studies
University colleges
United Kingdom
United Kingdom > UK
Scotland
Edinburgh Scotland
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Summary:In an Essay, Andrew Jackson and colleagues discuss challenges in the diagnosis and management of older people with dementia and delirium in acute hospitals.
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Conceptualization: TAJ DHJD.Supervision: TAJ DHJD.Visualization: TAJ.Writing – original draft: TAJ.Writing – review & editing: JRFG RHH AMJM ELS BS.
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following conflicts: JRFG is a researcher and clinician in the field covered by this paper, whose employing organisation holds research grant awards from The Alzheimer's Society and the NIHR (through CLAHRC and the PGfAR schemes) on which JRFG is an investigator. RHH holds research grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research (UK government) and is a member of The Alzheimer's Society, the topic review panel for the National Institute for Health Research, the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network steering committee, and the NHS Protect working group on clinically related violence.
ISSN:1549-1676
1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002247