What is delirium in old age
Time：2023-03-28 01:39:20 source：psychiatricethics.com author：Prevent anxiety Read：527次
What is delirium in old age
The main symptoms are that the patients' attention, memory, feeling, perception, thinking, psychomotor and sleep cycle and other advanced functions of the brain are impaired. In severe cases, there will be disturbance of consciousness, and the severity of symptoms fluctuates. What are the common symptoms of delirium in old age? Attention disorder: The patient's expression is rigid, dazed, unable to concentrate, and it is difficult to pay attention to the people and things around them; the judgment ability is poor, it is very difficult to understand the problem, the answers to the questions are simple and mostly irrelevant, and the content is messy. Memory impairment: Can not recall past events, and often make mistakes in what happened, that is, use their own imagined plots to make up for the vacant memory. Sometimes it is accompanied by a large number of illusions and hallucinations, among which horror vision and hallucinations are the main ones, and the content is mostly vivid, vivid and figurative situations, such as insects, beasts, monsters and so on. Fragments of delusions may also occur, among which delusions of persecution are more common. Consciousness disorders: Consciousness is unclear, mental activities are inhibited, responses are slow, and coma can occur. Sensory perception disorders: The patient cannot correctly identify the time, place, and person. I don’t know whether it is morning or afternoon, day or night, year, month, day and season; I can’t estimate the length of time that has passed; I don’t know where I am, I can’t answer correctly whether I’m in the hospital, at home, or where; I can’t identify relatives and other people. Medical staff, who don't even know who they are, can't tell their gender, age, and occupational prevention: Actively and formally treat primary underlying diseases, avoid overwork, and exercise appropriately to prevent senile delirium
The main symptoms are that the patients' attention, memory, feeling, perception, thinking, psychomotor and sleep cycle and other advanced functions of the brain are impaired. In severe cases, there will be disturbance of consciousness, and the severity of symptoms fluctuates. What are the common symptoms of delirium in old age? Attention disorder: The patient's expression is rigid, dazed, unable to concentrate, and it is difficult to pay attention to the people and things around them; the judgment ability is poor, it is very difficult to understand the problem, the answers to the questions are simple and mostly irrelevant, and the content is messy. Memory impairment: Can not recall past events, and often make mistakes in what happened, that is, use their own imagined plots to make up for the vacant memory. Sometimes it is accompanied by a large number of illusions and hallucinations, among which horror vision and hallucinations are the main ones, and the content is mostly vivid, vivid and figurative situations, such as insects, beasts, monsters and so on. Fragments of delusions may also occur, among which delusions of persecution are more common. Consciousness disorders: Consciousness is unclear, mental activities are inhibited, responses are slow, and coma can occur. Sensory perception disorders: The patient cannot correctly identify the time, place, and person. I don’t know whether it is morning or afternoon, day or night, year, month, day and season; I can’t estimate the length of time that has passed; I don’t know where I am, I can’t answer correctly whether I’m in the hospital, at home, or where; I can’t identify relatives and other people. Medical staff, who don't even know who they are, can't tell their gender, age, and occupational prevention: Actively and formally treat primary underlying diseases, avoid overwork, and exercise appropriately to prevent senile delirium
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