Hospital delirium in older patients may accelerate cognitive decline, raising concerns that hospital environments and practices could worsen dementia risk.

An older adult in hospital for an infection suddenly becomes fearful, irritable and doesn't recognise their lifelong spouse.

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 4: Staff nurse Judith Marini checks an elderly man's IV in the emergency room at Coney Island Hospital October 4, 2002. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) I recently visited a ...

Delirium is a strong risk factor for dementia and death among older people, finds the largest study of its kind published by The BMJ today. The findings show that, among hospital patients with at ...

Older adults who develop delirium during a hospital admission face a substantially higher risk of dementia in later years, ...

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 ...

An analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society reveals that older inpatients admitted to physicians who prescribe higher amounts of first-generation antihistamines face an elevated risk ...

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 ...

The overall study results on the duration of the initial episode of delirium and the number of symptoms are comparable to those of previous studies. [1,3,27] However, this study has 2 important new ...

More hospitalized older adults experienced incidents of delirium during the pandemic than before it, a new study shows. The heightened prevalence was tied to more antipsychotic and benzodiazepine ...