Essentials of Delirium: Everything You Really Need to Know for Working in Delirium Care

by Dr Shibley Rahman

Overview

Detailed knowledge and specific awareness of delirium is crucial in elderly care, due in part to the overlap with delirium and dementia. This introductory reference guide can be used by professionals and students to expand their understanding and skills in delirium care to better respond to the needs of people under their care. There are also detailed chapters on quality improvement and educational initiatives which will be of great help to the delirium workforce in delivering improved care.

Setting out clear and accessible learning objectives, Rahman provides the essential information needed to improve care for those with delirium. Showing how to identify and correctly diagnose delirium, this book addresses different aspects of care including the management of delirium and the various interventions available, as well as ethics and safeguarding. It will also empower patients and carers to better understand delirium, and engage in the discourse of their care. As a widespread yet underrepresented issue, this book is a vital and much-needed resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785926747
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	06/18/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	860,143
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dr Shibley Rahman graduated in neuroscience and medicine from Cambridge University. There he also completed his PhD in frontotemporal dementia, commencing a lifelong interest in the timely diagnosis of dementia. He also trained to postgraduate level in medicine, law and business. Shibley speaks regularly about dementia diagnosis and post-diagnostic care, researches wellbeing and advocates rights-based approaches.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Foreword Sharon Inouye 13

Foreword Alasdair MacLullich 15

1 Delirium awareness 17

2 Delirium identification, assessment and diagnosis 62

3 Delirium risk reduction and prevention 82

4 Person-centred delirium care 93

5 Communication, interaction and behaviour in delirium care 109

6 Health and wellbeing in delirium 120

7 Interventions in delirium care 134

8 Outcomes after an episode of delirium 150

9 The delirium experience Mark Hudson 163

10 Law, ethics and safeguarding in delirium care 173

11 Palliative and end-of-life care, and delirium 183

12 Quality improvement and evidence-based medicine 193

13 Educational initiatives 207

Afterword Dr Daniel Davis 216

Afterword Dr Amit Arora 218

Bibliography 220

References 223

Editorial Reviews

Essentials of Delirium should become a go-to text for frontline healthcare workers, policy-makers and others who seek a readable, clear and practice-orientated account of delirium.

From the foreword

One of the golden tests of any medical book is 'Will it change your practice?' This book certainly can do this.

From the afterword