Perioperative gabapentin upped the risk of delirium, new antipsychotic use, and pneumonia in older adults after major surgery, a retrospective study showed. Risk of delirium -- the primary outcome of ...

Dear Carol: My 95-year-old mom was recently hospitalized for pneumonia. While there, she developed delirium and didn’t even know the family. The hospital staff acted as if it was nothing to worry ...

January 18, 2008 — A study of elderly patients who were followed for 1 year after hospital discharge found that healthcare costs per day survived were 2.5 times higher for those who developed delirium ...

Nov. 19 (UPI) --More than 1 in 4 older adults with COVID-19 first experience delirium -- a state of confusion or disorientation -- before other symptoms of the virus appear, according to a study ...

Lora Krall says delirium made her mother's final days a nightmare. The 73-year-old didn't recognize her daughter or husband. The delirium took hold while Krall's mother, Harriet, was in the hospital, ...

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"My elderly mom was admitted to a nursing home a couple weeks ago, and now seems to be hallucinating on and off, especially at night," a patient asked recently. "She has never had any mental illness.

Clinicians should keep in mind that delirium is an early warning sign of COVID-19 in frail, elderly adults — even when cough, fever and other typical signs are absent, say physician researchers from ...

World Pneumonia Day highlights the rising threat of pneumonia, particularly in young children and the elderly. This ...