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    The document defines and provides characteristics of two concepts: Impaired Comfort and Chronic Confusion. Impaired Comfort is a perceived lack of ease, relief, and transcendence in various dimensions that can cause symptoms like anxiety, discomfort, and irritability. Chronic Confusion is an irreversible deterioration of intellect and personality from conditions like Alzheimer's, shown through memory and cognitive impairments.

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    The document defines and provides characteristics of two concepts: Impaired Comfort and Chronic Confusion. Impaired Comfort is a perceived lack of ease, relief, and transcendence in various dimensions that can cause symptoms like anxiety, discomfort, and irritability. Chronic Confusion is an irreversible deterioration of intellect and personality from conditions like Alzheimer's, shown through memory and cognitive impairments.

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    The document defines and provides characteristics of two concepts: Impaired Comfort and Chronic Confusion. Impaired Comfort is a perceived lack of ease, relief, and transcendence in various dimensions that can cause symptoms like anxiety, discomfort, and irritability. Chronic Confusion is an irreversible deterioration of intellect and personality from conditions like Alzheimer's, shown through memory and cognitive impairments.

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    Impaired Comfort

    Definition
    Perceived lack of ease, relief, and transcendence in physical, psychospiritual, environmental,
    cultural and/ or social dimensions
    Defining Characteristics
    Alteration in sleep pattern; anxiety; crying; discontent with situation; distressing symptoms; fear
    feeling cold; feeling hot; feeling of discomfort; feeling of hunger; inability to relax; irritability;
    itching; moaning; restlessness; sighing; uneasy in situation
    Related Factors (r/t)
    Illness-related symptoms; insufficient environmental control; insufficient privacy; insufficient
    resources (e.g., financial, social, knowledge); insufficient situational control; noxious
    environmental stimuli; treatment regimen
    Chronic Confusion
    Definition
    Irreversible, long-standing, and/or progressive deterioration of intellect and personality
    characterized by decreased ability to interpret environmental stimuli; decreased capacity for
    intellectual thought processes; manifested by disturbances of memory, orientation, and behavior
    Defining Characteristics
    Alteration in interpretation; alteration in personality; alteration in response to stimuli; alteration
    in short-term memory; impaired social functioning; chronic cognitive impairment; normal level
    of consciousness; organic brain disorder; progressive alteration in cognitive impairment
    Related Factors (r/t) Alzheimer’s disease; cerebrovascular accident; Korsakoff ’s psychosis;
    multi-infarct dementia

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