Delirium: A Marker of Vulnerability in Older People

Delirium is an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome and one of the most common presenting symptoms of acute medical illnesses in older people. Delirium can be triggered by a single cause, but in most cases, it is multifactorial as it depends on the interaction between predisposing and precipitating facto...

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Main Authors: Giuseppe Bellelli, Justin S. Brathwaite, Paolo Mazzola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2021.626127/full