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To add on to this sometimes psychiatry gets called in the hospital for delirious patients. Being elderly is one possible risk factor but a lot of the times the elderly person not having their glasses or a charged hearing aid contributes to hallucinating quite a bit, especially with an infection added on top of it. These are people with 0 psychiatric history.
Comment by risingsunset5 at 04/02/2025 at 22:06 UTC
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Do you know if there’s a term for that? Currently my grandmom is having hallucinations. She does have an active infection that’s being treated and doesn’t wear her prescribed glasses. She’s never had hallucinations before :(