Abstract
Delirium is recognized as a key healthcare target for our increasingly aged society. Improved management of delirium and related neuropsychiatric presentations can allow for significant improvements in outcomes but requires fundamental change in the structure of healthcare services. There is a pressing need for cognitive-friendly hospital programmes that can increase awareness of delirium, provide better education around its management, improve detection in real-world practice, and promote evidence-based management of cognitive problems in the general hospital. We outline key elements of delirium-friendly services that span interventions in our day-to-day clinical care of individual patients all the way to wider organizational practices.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Clinical Topics in Old Age Psychiatry |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 254-265 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108594714 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781108706148 |
| Publication status | Published - 17 Sep 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |