I'd like to welcome everybody to today's presentation on addressing agitation and delirium in older adults.

I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipez.

Over the next hour, we're going to recap cognitive impairment.

Just talk about what that is in case you haven't been in the prior classes,

will define agitation, delirium, and sundowning, and then explore the causes of those things

in each piece of the older adult's life. Now remember, peace stands for physical,

interpersonal, emotional, cognitive, and environmental. There are a lot of things that can cause agitation and delirium

particularly, and there are a few things that cause sundowning. A reminder for those of you taking

this for continuing education, the PDF of the PowerPoint, as well as handouts and worksheets,

are available in your CEU class at allCEUs.com.

Non-clinical caregivers can also take the course at allCEUs.com to help you better understand

and respond to older adults you may be working with.

So you don't have to be a clinician to take the class.

Let's start out by just recapping.

What is cognitive impairment?

And remember, cognitive impairment has a range of symptoms, if you will.

As we age, our thinking slows.

That's not indicative necessarily of dementia or something worse. It could just be aging. And then on the other end of the spectrum, we have people

who have progressed dementia's, Alzheimer's disease, etc.

When we're talking about cognitive impairment, we're talking about people, particularly that are having difficulty with the stuff that goes on in their prefrontal cortex,

their memory, their attention, their concentration, their ability to find words and

communicate effectively, their understanding of their

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