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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

By
David J Meagher ,
Henry O’Connell ,
Walter Cullen  and
Dimitrios Adamis
Edited by
Julian C. Hughes  and
Philippa Lilford
Julian C. Hughes
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
Philippa Lilford
Affiliation:
Severn Deanery, University of Bristol
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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 - 265
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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