Tackling immobility in hospitalized seniors

Tackling immobility in hospitalized seniors.

through a hospital ward has seen room after room of elderly patients quietly dozing in bed, as if every patient was being treated for a cold or hysteria, or recumbence the necessary condition of all therapies. And doesn’t it make sense, after all, that elderly patients should spend their days on their back? Traditional wisdom dictates that bedrest promotes healing and recovery, much in the mann...

Cognitive Impairment in Hospitalized Seniors

Cognitive disorders are highly prevalent in hospitalized seniors, and can be due to delirium, dementia, as well as other disorders. Hospitalization can have adverse cognitive effects, and cognitive dysfunction adversely affects hospital outcomes. In this article, the literature is reviewed on how hospitalization affects cognitive function and how cognitive impairment affects hospital outcomes. ...

Conscious Immobility

Tackling Complexity in Science

Validation of the Sour Seven Questionnaire for screening delirium in hospitalized seniors by informal caregivers and untrained nurses

BACKGROUND Delirium is a common condition in hospitalized seniors that nonetheless often goes undetected by nurses or is delayed in being detected which negatively impacts quality of care and outcomes. We sought to develop a new screening tool for delirium, The Sour Seven Questionnaire, a 7-item questionnaire suitable to be completed from informal or untrained caregiver observation. The study a...