Environmental risk factors for delirium in hospitalized older people

Article Abstract:

Research indicates that hospital-room environment is a key factor in maintaining the mental health of elderly patients, whether or not symptoms of delirium are already present. Factors influencing delirium risk include absence of reading glasses, absence of a watch or clock, number of room changes, and the presence of physical or medical restraints.

Canada, Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Research, Risk factors, Hospital patients, Environmental psychology, Delirium

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The prognostic significance of subsyndromal delirium in elderly inpatients

Article Abstract:

The prognostic significance of subsyndromal delirium (SSD) presentations is determined. SSD appears to be a clinically important syndrome that falls on a continuum between no symptoms and Diagnostic and Statistical Mental disorders (DSM)-defined delirium in elderly inpatients.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Aged patients, Elderly patients

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The prevalence and correlates of major and minor depression in older medical inpatients

Article Abstract:

A study of the major and minor depression in elderly persons is presented. The characteristics associated therewith are documented based sex and history of depression.

Analysis, Depression in old age, Geriatric depression

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