Overview

• Identify the degree of delirium in subjects with mild cognitive impairment and find the risk factors of delirium. Mortality, hospital stay, and medical expenses are analyzed as clinical consequences related to delirium incidence.
  • Dementia conversion rate and conversion period of subjects with mild cognitive impairment with delirium and it identifies the effect of delirium on dementia conversion.
  • Develop an AI(Artificial intelligence) algorithm for predicting dementia transition in subjects with mild cognitive impairment based on the research results of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients 65 years of age or older who are admitted to a LTC
• Patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment by doctors
• Patients with a score of 18 or more and 23 or less on the Mini-Mental State Examination

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients unable to measure the delirium assessment tool, The Short Confusion Assessment Methods (S-CAM) (Inouye, 2014) due to severe vision and hearing problems
• Patients with serious psychiatric or neurological diagnosis,Patients who expire or were transferred on the day of admission -
• Patients receiving emergency treatment at the time of the delirium assessment or unable to measure or intervene with S-CAM due to hospital circumstances