{"title":"Managing delirium in everyday practice: towards cognitive-friendly hospitals","authors":"H. O’connell, S. Kennelly, W. Cullen, D. Meagher","doi":"10.1192/APT.BP.113.012468","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Providing optimal healthcare for increasingly elderly hospital populations who have high rates of cognitive disorder is a great challenge. Using delirium as an example, we describe how improved management of acute cognitive problems through a multifaceted hospital-wide programme can promote cognitive-friendly hospital environments. A specific plan of action is described that spans interventions in day-to-day clinical care of individual patients all the way to wider organisational practices.","PeriodicalId":89879,"journal":{"name":"Advances in psychiatric treatment : the Royal College of Psychiatrists' journal of continuing professional development","volume":"20 1","pages":"380-389"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1192/APT.BP.113.012468","citationCount":"31","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in psychiatric treatment : the Royal College of Psychiatrists' journal of continuing professional development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1192/APT.BP.113.012468","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Providing optimal healthcare for increasingly elderly hospital populations who have high rates of cognitive disorder is a great challenge. Using delirium as an example, we describe how improved management of acute cognitive problems through a multifaceted hospital-wide programme can promote cognitive-friendly hospital environments. A specific plan of action is described that spans interventions in day-to-day clinical care of individual patients all the way to wider organisational practices.