Interventions for preventing delirium in older people in institutional long-term care.
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SUBMITTER: Woodhouse R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478111 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
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Interventions for preventing delirium in older people in institutional long-term care.
Woodhouse Rebecca R Burton Jennifer K JK Rana Namrata N Pang Yan Ling YL Lister Jennie E JE Siddiqi Najma N
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20190423
<h4>Background</h4>Delirium is a common and distressing mental disorder. It is often caused by a combination of stressor events in susceptible people, particularly older people living with frailty and dementia. Adults living in institutional long-term care (LTC) are at particularly high risk of delirium. An episode of delirium increases risks of admission to hospital, development or worsening of dementia and death. Multicomponent interventions can reduce the incidence of delirium by a third in t ...[more]
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