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20 Φεβ 2024 · This scoping review aimed to identify and map the available information on the nutrition care process in older adults with delirium to analyse and summarise key concepts, and gaps, including the barriers and enablers to providing nutrition care for this group.
8 Σεπ 2023 · Delirium is a serious consequence of many acute or worsening chronic medical conditions, a side effect of medications, and a precipitant of worsening functional and cognitive status in older adults...
14 Οκτ 2022 · Factors may include a severe or long illness or an imbalance in the body, such as low sodium. The disorder also may be caused by certain medicines, infection, surgery, or alcohol or drug use or withdrawal. Symptoms of delirium are sometimes confused with symptoms of dementia.
22 Φεβ 2023 · Delirium is a type of confusion that happens when the combined strain of illnesses, environmental circumstances or other risk factors disrupts your brain function. It’s more common in adults over 65. This condition is serious and can cause long-term or permanent problems, especially with delays in treatment.
11 Σεπ 2021 · Dehydration and malnutrition are risk factors for delirium, along with age, frailty cognitive and sensory impairment and serious illness. Effective prevention programs can reduce delirium by 30–50% but require multiple integrated components, including supporting good nutrition and hydration.
Pain, dehydration, infections, stroke and metabolic disturbances, and surgery are the most common triggering factors. Delirium is preventable in a large proportion of cases and therefore, it is also important from a public health perspective for interventions to reduce further complications and the substantial costs associated with these.
9 Φεβ 2021 · Although people of any age are at risk of delirium, the elderly are at greater risk because aging and age-dependent structural changes inevitably affect the brain’s functional reserve. Keywords: Aging, Brain, Delirium, Functional reserve.
