In the case of the patients belonging to this category of diagnostic,
fluctuating mental alteration is most frequently encountered at forms of
moderate dementia. Delirium associated or not with withdrawal symptoms,
frequently jeopardizes the person?s capacity of taking a decision, this leading
to frequent involuntary hospitalizations. The purpose of this study is to
highlight the bio-psycho-social and legal aspects of the patients?
involuntarily hospitalized suffering from delirium, dementia and other
cognitive impairments. Material and method ? it is a quantitative and
retrospective study, and data have been processed from the observation charts
of the patients involuntarily hospitalized between 2002 and 2012, suffering
from delirium, dementia and other cognitive impairments. The group under study
included 22 patients involuntarily hospitalized throughout 10 years in ?Socola?
Psychiatric Hospital, Iasi. Results ? group distribution according to sex
emphasizes that males are preponderant. The average age for females was 41%,
while for males was 38.71%, which emphasizes age homogeneity according to sex
(t=0.120; GL=21; p=0.732). The diagnostic of delirium, dementia or other
cognitive impairments was confirmed at 77.3% of the patients involuntarily
hospitalized. Conclusion - it is noticed the high frequency of the unemployed
patients, which shows their difficulty of social functioning and reinserting,
because of their altered cognitive, affective-emotional functions, whether
behavioral or it is a consequence of the psychiatric patient?s stigmatization
and marginalization. In psychiatry, the competence variability generates
multiple ethic discussions. The cognitive functions being altered especially in
the case of certain mental disorders, compromise the necessary conditions of a
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