12 results for “memory decline”
73y · Male·Unknown (possibly impact with water, drowning, injury, exhaustion, dehydration, …
A 73-year-old man with recent cognitive decline jumped from a cruise ship in Western Australia, resulting in death. Clinical lessons include recognising …
58y · Male·drowning
… He had recently been diagnosed with significant cognitive impairment affecting information processing and memory following complaints of fatigue and short-term memory loss. He also reported chronic fatigue syndrome. The…
65y · Female·heatstroke
A 65-year-old woman with recent memory decline went for a walk on an extremely hot day (39°C) without water, hat, or money. She became lost due t…
65y · Male·presumed death, actual circumstances unknown
…ssing on 22 December 1995 and was presumed deceased. He had Alzheimer's disease with documented cognitive decline, memory impairment, and disinhibited behaviour. His wife left Tasmania on 4 December 1995, leaving Mr Ral…
81y · Male·Unable to determine - likely dehydration and exposure in remote bushland terrain…
…, aged 81, disappeared in May 1986 from a remote area near Davyhurst, Western Australia. He had cognitive decline with short-term memory loss, difficulty walking due to hip surgery complications, a heart condition manag…
87y · Male·Blunt trauma of the head and chest
…before collapsing. Contributing factors were his medical conditions, impaired sensory function, cognitive decline, and continued high-risk farm work despite medical advice against it.
91y · Female·pelvic haematoma arising from a fracture of the neck of the left femur sustained…
A 91-year-old woman with dementia, emphysema and cognitive decline was admitted to hospital after a fall. She was assessed as high falls risk but inadequate fall prevention…
85y · Female·Multiple injuries sustained as a passenger in a motor vehicle collision
…vehicle collision caused by her husband's driving error. Her husband had documented progressive cognitive decline and dementia from at least 2010, yet no assessment of his fitness to drive was made by treating clinician…
83y · Male·Multiple injuries sustained in collision with train (pedestrian)
…rain while attempting to climb from railway tracks. Despite living in aged care with documented cognitive decline and falls, he was permitted unsupervised community access per his daughter's written instructions. A trai…
90y · Female·Hospital acquired pneumonia in the setting of recent fractures of neck of humeru…
… competing urgent demands of multiple patients, particularly elderly patients with cognitive and physical decline who remain mobilising. The family's concerns were largely directed at systemic resource constraints rathe…
59y · Male·Multiple injuries due to motor vehicle collision (motorcyclist)
John Norman Spence, 59, died from multiple injuries sustained in a motorcycle collision with a Mercedes sedan driven by an 89-year-old man with undiagnosed vascular dementia. The driver had an expired medical certificate…
38y · Male·hanging
…ental health support was deemed appropriate. The inquest noted that earlier recognition of neurocognitive decline and psychiatric symptoms in contact sport athletes with repetitive head trauma could enable earlier inter…
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