Delirium in Old Age

Welcome to the update pages for
Delirium in Old Age

Update Editor: Alastair Macdonald, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.

The updates are organised by chapter headings from the book. The first update (October 2002) covered the period from manuscript submission to publication. If you know of work which you think should be included here, or you disagree with what has been included in some way, please email suggestions to

alastair.macdonald@iop.kcl.ac.uk.

This update is cumulative- all new evidence from the literature following manuscript submission is included, and is still assigned to the chapter headings from the book. However, under each chapter heading the material is divided into emerging themes and footnotes, the latter mostly in the form of an annotated bibliography.

Note that

• When new material relates to more than one chapter, it may be repeated in different chapter sections.
• No material specific to the topic of delirium at the end of life is included in this update; there is now a book on this topic: Delirium - Acute Confusional States in Palliative Medicine Caraceni and Grassi, OUP

   http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-263199-3

• case reports of new putative precipitating causes of delirium, especially medications, are not now included unless the evidence is overwhelming or alternatively tickles my fancy

The next update is scheduled for August 2006.

To see the latest update click on the link on the left.