NURSING 2LA2 Lecture 3: Dementia and Dementia textbook notes
7 Oct 2016
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Upon conclusion of this unit the student will: Discuss the importance of delirium as a predictor of increased mortality in the elderly hospitalized population. Identify the subtypes of delirium and their associated characteristics. Describe the screening tools available to diagnose delirium. Identify the predisposing and precipitating factors that increase a patient"s risk for delirium. Describe the intervention protocols used to prevent and manage delirium in the hospitalized elderly population. Cam instrument cognition flucuating course neuroinflammatory hypothesis predisposing factors acute onset astrocyte cerebral blood flow cytokines hyper-/hypo-active perceptual disturbances pro-inflammatory altered consciousness blood-brain barrier cholinergic hypothesis dopamine microglia precipitating factors psychomotor disturbances. Hannon, r. a. , pooler, c. & porth, c. (2016). Porth pathophysiology: concepts of altered health states (2nd. Chapter 3, concepts of altered health in older adults, pp. Dementia is a complex and devastating problem that is a major cause of functional disability, dependence, and mortality in the older adult population.
