Delirium

Broken sleep & Coronavirus (Bruce Lee, the philosophy of time and space and this week)

Getting rid of the routine allows people to focus on what is important. (Bruce Lee said this in the 60's - 'Hack away the un-essential')

Delirium

This afternoon I described death.

In the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Network for Dementia we are working to increase knowledge and understanding of delirium. This is a state of reversible confusion and disorientation that occurs […]

Delirium

Why is delirium so much worse than dementia?

Even Stephen King says that dementia keeps him awake at night.

Delirium

‘Behavioural’

Just as with suffering, it is not something that can be measured and compared, it isn’t absolute, it is relative like everything else in the universe.

Delirium

Delirium (2)

Our health and social care staff need to gain a better understanding of this condition – how to identify the early signs, how to diagnose and treat.

Delirium

This is me (&you)

Many of you reading this will be familiar with This is me – the person-centred document we have been using in the hospital for the past five or six years. […]

Delirium

Gouda and This is me

All these little bits, these fragments of who we are, where we have been and what we have done contribute to our whole

Effectiveness

Night at the hospital

There is an assumption that when the lights go down and the night-staff appear on the scene that things become quiet and still – a little like a scene from Bambi.

Delirium

Medicines, etc.

Nevertheless, within the dark underbelly of medicine, where geriatricians live, there are some quite stunning effects often, from stopping and sometimes starting medicines.

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almondemotion

My thoughts on creativity, imagination, health and social care and their relationship with human emotion

Delirium

Broken sleep & Coronavirus (Bruce Lee, the philosophy of time and space and this week)

This afternoon I described death.

Why is delirium so much worse than dementia?

‘Behavioural’

Delirium (2)

This is me (&you)

Gouda and This is me

Night at the hospital

Medicines, etc.