Delirium Screening
A number of people have asked me to try and summarise my considerations on delirium assessment. In what follows I will also try and outline an alternative approach to the … Continue reading Delirium Screening
Category: Delirium
Neuroscientific understandings, as they develop, are considered alongside sociology, ageing, philosophy and the medical humanities.
One-and-the-same
In this short film I will explain to you why I have come to understand that case-finding and screening are actually one-and-the-same. One-and-the-same: To play this short film please click … Continue reading One-and-the-same
Infusion of worldwide teas
This short closing section on “delirium” has taken as a title a few words from Love in the time of Cholera. I have read this book several times and the … Continue reading Infusion of worldwide teas
The ethical management of forgetfulness
Consent “Obtaining consent should be an ethical duty first and foremost, one central to respecting the autonomy and dignity of patients”[39] Informed consent is crucial for patients but it is … Continue reading The ethical management of forgetfulness
The faltering, unfaltering steps
INTRODUCTION: “Sensitive to the faltering steps of age”[1] In what follows I will attempt to explore many of the issues around the experience of confusion in those people 65 years … Continue reading The faltering, unfaltering steps