Comments on: Why are elderly patients at risk of delirium in the ER? https://health.sunnybrook.ca/elderly-patients-risk-delirium-er/ Stories and expert health tips from Sunnybrook Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: MLNNLFAN https://health.sunnybrook.ca/elderly-patients-risk-delirium-er/#comment-546 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:25:00 +0000 http://health.sunnybrook.ca/?p=10750#comment-546 What sort of incidence is there for this condition in ERs? It is completely shocking that people who go to emergency are allowed to deteriorate so strongly.

And for the growing numbers of us without family around, surely time this was given systemic attention. Why should volunteers be “printing lists of patients” and their feeding requirements? This is barbaric.

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