In a hospitalized older adult with significant pain and delirium, in which delirium may be due either to underlying pain or use of pain medications such as narcotics, how do you approach clinical management of delirium?

This is such a common and challenging scenario! Older adults experiencing delirium often cannot identify/vocalize the need for PRN medications. If there is high clinical suspicion for sub-optimally controlled pain being a contributor to the delirium, a strategy could be scheduling low-dose pain medi...