It will be more difficult to observe patients and perform clinical assessments. Nor do all patients have sufficiently good digital skills or adequate health literacy.

Healthcare personnel can make decisions about the admission basis and treatment needs or hold care coordination meetings with the service user, and the community mental health centre and municipalities can establish accountability or negotiate responsibility, and determine which measures to implement.

The infection control measures may have impacted negatively on the breastfeeding assistance provided for first-time mothers in postnatal facilities.  There was also a greater reliance on breast-milk substitutes than normal.

More knowledge of the symptoms of delirium in this vulnerable patient group may lead to a better neurological outcome and prevent unnecessary testing, shorten hospital stays and lower mortality.