In her late 60s, your mom goes to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. Within hours, she’s confused and agitated, insisting she’s at home and not in a hospital bed. Medical professionals call ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Delirium, independent of preexisting dementia, at the time of discharge to a skilled nursing facility after HF ...

Delerium is tied to a significantly increased risk for dementia and death in older adults, with men at particular risk, new research showed. Incident dementia risk was more than three times higher in ...

The innovative use of recorded messages from a family member to provide reorientation information to a critically ill patient ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...

A new study that looked at possible improvements in post-acute care quality and outcomes following the 2014 Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act found that delirium ...

Specially qualified nurses with extended roles—known as Dementia Care Managers—can measurably improve the care of people with ...

After an initial pilot program, Medicare has introduced a new model for treating patients with dementia this year. The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience Model, called GUIDE, is a voluntary ...