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- Clinical Topics in Old Age Psychiatry
- ‘Clinical Topics In … ’
- Clinical Topics in Old Age Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Editors’ Note
- Abbreviations
- Introductory Comments
- Section 1 Epidemiology and Types of Disorders
- Section 2 Assessment and Investigations
- Section 3 Approaches to Management
- Chapter 14 Supporting Self-Management in Early Dementia
- Chapter 15 What Can Person-Centred Care in Dementia Learn from the Recovery Movement?
- Chapter 16 Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia
- Chapter 17 Palliative Care in Dementia
- Chapter 18 Review of Treatment for Late-Life Depression
- Chapter 19 Reducing the Healthcare Burden of Delirium
- Chapter 20 Controlling the Confusion
- Section 4 Law, Ethics, and Philosophy
- Index
- References
Chapter 19 - Reducing the Healthcare Burden of Delirium
The Challenge of Developing More Cognitive-Friendly Services
from Section 3 - Approaches to Management
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2020
- Clinical Topics in Old Age Psychiatry
- ‘Clinical Topics In … ’
- Clinical Topics in Old Age Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Editors’ Note
- Abbreviations
- Introductory Comments
- Section 1 Epidemiology and Types of Disorders
- Section 2 Assessment and Investigations
- Section 3 Approaches to Management
- Chapter 14 Supporting Self-Management in Early Dementia
- Chapter 15 What Can Person-Centred Care in Dementia Learn from the Recovery Movement?
- Chapter 16 Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia
- Chapter 17 Palliative Care in Dementia
- Chapter 18 Review of Treatment for Late-Life Depression
- Chapter 19 Reducing the Healthcare Burden of Delirium
- Chapter 20 Controlling the Confusion
- Section 4 Law, Ethics, and Philosophy
- Index
- References
Summary
Delirium is recognized as a key healthcare target for our increasingly aged society. Improved management of delirium and related neuropsychiatric presentations can allow for significant improvements in outcomes but requires fundamental change in the structure of healthcare services. There is a pressing need for cognitive-friendly hospital programmes that can increase awareness of delirium, provide better education around its management, improve detection in real-world practice, and promote evidence-based management of cognitive problems in the general hospital. We outline key elements of delirium-friendly services that span interventions in our day-to-day clinical care of individual patients all the way to wider organizational practices.
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- Clinical Topics in Old Age Psychiatry , pp. 254 - 265Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020