News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Jun 19, 2012, Online

<p>Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Also Included In: Arthritis / Rheumatology
Article Date: 19 Jun 2012 3:00 PDT</p>

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<p> 1. Hospitalization Often Catastrophic for Alzheimer Patients</p>

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Hospitalization of patients with Alzheimer illness (AD) mostly leads to complications such as delirium, detriment of independence, institutionalization, and death. Researchers theorized that AD patients who humour an part of derangement during hospitalization are during increasing risk for inauspicious outcomes. In a impending study, researchers reviewed 15 years of medical annals for a conspirator of 771 patients aged 65 or comparison with a clinical diagnosis of AD to establish that patients, and underneath what circumstances, had hospitalization, delirium, death, and/or institutionalization. The annals showed that ...