title: Challenges and opportunities in understanding dementia and delirium in the acute hospital.
abstract: In an Essay, Andrew Jackson and colleagues discuss challenges in the diagnosis and management of older people with dementia and delirium in acute hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.|University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6320-9600
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.affiliation: Division of Rehabilitation and Ageing, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: John R F
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8506-7786
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Gladman
authors.affiliation: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Rowan H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Harwood
authors.affiliation: Edinburgh Delirium Research Group, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Alasdair M J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3159-9370
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: MacLullich
authors.affiliation: Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Elizabeth L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Sampson
authors.affiliation: Psychological Medicine, Rehabilitation and Cardiac Division, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sheehan
authors.affiliation: MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Daniel H J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-1955
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D003693:Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence