Delirium
This delirium screening tool is completed towards the end of your shift.
What is the CAM
Reduced ability to walk safely, often due to muscle weakness, balance changes, or cognitive decline, increases this common risk.
What are falls?
This basic activity of daily living often shows early decline and includes tasks like putting on pants and shirts.
What is dressing?
Difficulty rising from a chair, climbing stairs, or carrying groceries often indicates weakness of this specific muscle group in the legs.
What are the quadriceps?
This is the most common type of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
What does CAM stand for?
What is Confusion Assessment Method
Polypharmacy increases risk of dizziness, confusion, and gait disturbances, especially when a patient takes more than this number of daily medications.
What is five?
This type of exercise - including walking and resistance training - is the most effective way to slow age-related functional decline.
What is physical activity?
This assistive device, helps promote extra balance support and comes in no wheels, two wheels, and four wheel varietries.
What are walkers?
A person with dementia who becomes more confused in the late afternoon or evening is experiencing this phenomenon.
What is sundowning?
This framework is used to prevent hospital acquired delirium from developing.
What is ADAPT?
This type of medication - such as benzodiazepines - can impair mobility by causing sedation and delayed reflexes.
What are sedatives?
This term, commonly abbreviated to "ADL" assesses how independently a senior can perform daily tasks like bathing, toileting, and feeding.
What are Activities of Daily Living?
This type of therapy focuses on improving balance, gait, posture, and strength to optimize mobility.
What is Physiotherapy?
Providing familiar routines and reducing noise can help decrease this common behavioral symptom in dementia.
What are behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)
Preventing nighttime confusion and delirium often starts with promoting this basic need, which can be disrupted in hospitals.
What is sleep?
This is responsible for 4800 deaths a years, 94,000 hospitalizations, 28,000 new disabilities.
What are falls?
Vision and hearing impairments often contribute to social withdrawal, which can further functional decline, this term refers to age-related sensory losses.
What is sensory impairment?
Muscle strength of an admitted senior can decrease by this amount each day they spend in bed.
What is 2 - 5%
When responding to a delusion or mistaken belief, caregivers are encouraged to do this rather than correct the person directly.
What is validate?
This hospital based volunteer program focuses on preventing both physical and mental decline in hospitalized seniors
What is HELP
This community resource, available to everyone with a valid Ontario health card, can complete a home safety assessment.
What is Ontario Health atHome?
Loss of mobility in an older adult may indicate this medical syndrome, characterized by decreased energy, strength, and endurance.
What is frailty?
This group is responsible for mobilizing admitted hospital patients.
What is the Interprofessional team?
When you notice that a person living with dementia is becoming agitated, this technique can help regain their ability for calmness.
What is the Stop and Go technique?