ArticleJournal of gerontological nursing2012
Pay attention! The critical importance of assessing attention in older adults with dementia.
Article in Journal of gerontological nursing, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01267682 (Reserve For Delirium Superimposed On Dementia), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Reserve For Delirium Superimposed On Dementia (DSD)
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing delirium rounds in a clinical trial across three diverse hospital settings.Clinical nursing research · 2014Trial
- Disintegrating ipseity: a gerontological exegesis of Alzheimer's disease and relational identity in Alice Munro's fiction.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2026Article
- Commonalities and Divergences in the Cognitive Profiles of Autism and Dementia: Protocol for a Narrative Literature Review.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Association between yoga and multimorbidity: a nationwide study of 279,885 middle-aged and older adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Performance on bedside tests of attention and organized thinking in patients with dementia free from delirium.International psychogeriatrics · 2019Article
- The neuropsychology of delirium: advancing the science of delirium assessment.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2018Review
- The Diagnosis of Delirium Superimposed on Dementia: An Emerging Challenge.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2017Review
- The association between an ultrabrief cognitive screening in older adults and hospital outcomes.Journal of hospital medicine · 2015Review
- Impaired Arousal in Older Adults Is Associated With Prolonged Hospital Stay and Discharge to Skilled Nursing Facility.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2015Article
- Attention! A good bedside test for delirium?Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2014Article
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Abstract
Attention is an important cognitive domain that is affected in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. It influences performance in most other cognitive domains, as well as activities of daily living. Nurses are often unaware of the critical importance of assessing attention as part of the overall mental status examination. This article addresses an important gap in nurses' knowledge. The authors present a brief overview of attention as a critical cognitive domain in dementia; review instruments/methods for standardizing and enhancing the assessment of attention; and offer ways to help ensure that best practices in the assessment, recognition, and documentation of inattention are implemented in the clinical area. Clinical resources that practicing nurses may find helpful are included.
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