Today's aging population, chronic diseases and co-morbidity are the source of major, often unrecognized health problems, including delirium. It's a neuropsychiatric disorder that's quite common in elderly people who are losing their autonomy or who have a number of physical and cognitive frailties, but it can also affect younger patients.
Delirium syndrome is often the tip of the iceberg of an acute health problem, presenting as an atypical syndrome of a serious illness such as pneumonia or myocardial infarction, or of a multitude of symptoms that degrade the person's state of health.
This syndrome has major consequences for the sufferer. The loss of autonomy and long-term cognitive sequelae increase the length of stay in institutions and the cost of care. Hence the importance of early detection of this syndrome, given that only a small proportion of cases are actually detected by clinicians.
This course will review the latest scientific knowledge and the results of a number of research projects carried out in recent years. The prevalence of delirium, its predisposing factors and how to detect it are the focus of this training. How to describe this syndrome accurately and, above all, how to provide an unequivocal vocabulary for assessing mental state in the elderly is another important aspect of this training course on delirium syndrome in geriatrics.
This ONLINE training course lasts an estimated 7 hours. You'll have access to your 7-hour ACCREDITED certificate as soon as you complete all the chapters.
Main objective
Assess the mental state of a symptomatic person.
TRAINER
Mireille Guillemette inf.B.ed. trainer and author. president of Mire Formation Conseil inc, teacher CEVQ (Centre d'excellence du vieillissement de Québec)
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