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delirium superimposed on dementia: a standalone construct

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Geriatric medicine

delirium occurring in a person who already has dementia, which is common, harder to recognize and linked to faster decline.

In geriatric medicine, delirium superimposed on dementia refers to delirium occurring in a person who already has dementia, which is common, harder to recognize and linked to faster decline. This meaning comes from Fick (2002) in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.[1]

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  1. Fick, D. M., Agostini, J. V., & Inouye, S. K. (2002). Delirium Superimposed on Dementia: A Systematic Review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 50(10), 1723-1732. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50468.x

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