Lack of understanding of delirium persists: hospital
By Wang Chun-chung and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Delirium among older people is often overlooked as a disease, due primarily to a lack of public understanding and medical personnel underestimating the possibility of the condition occurring, Chi Mei Medical Center said.
The Tainan hospital said that it admitted an 82-year-old woman, whose family said that she had developed shingles.
The woman, who was diabetic, had hypertension and had experienced a stroke, complained of pain and a loss of appetite because of the shingles, and had become increasingly more active at night while sleeping through the day, the family said, adding that she had also started speaking nonsense and and was unable to recognize people.