With The Hunger Games movie two weeks and a day away, buzz abounds. Last week, a clip of Katniss showing the Capitol's gamemakers what's what made the rounds on the 'net, and author Suzanne Collins posted her review of the film. Collins wrote, "Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he’s also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building’s fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol."
If all this buzz has made you, well, hungry for more teen dystopia, there's a book to tie you over. Really, we have a whole list of them. Instead of re-reading The Hunger Games series (again) as you patiently count down the minutes to the movie (22,360 minutes, not that I'm counting--ehem), check out Delirium, the first book in Lauren Oliver's series, or Divergent, the first book in Veronica Roth's series.
> What to Read After The Hunger Games
By Anayo Akunne
Delirium is a common but serious condition that affects many older people admitted to hospital. It is characterised by disturbed consciousness and changes in cognitive function or perception that develop over a short period of time. This condition is sometimes called “acute confusional state.”
It is associated with poor outcomes. People with delirium have higher chances of developing new dementia, new admission to institutions, extended stays in the hospital, as well as higher risk of death. Delirium also increases the chances of hospital-acquired complications such as falls and pressure ulcers. Poor outcomes resulting from delirium will reduce the patient’s health-related quality of life but also increase the cost of health care.
Delirium can be prevented if dealt with urgently. Enhanced care systems based on multi-component prevention interventions are associated with the potential to prevent new cases of delirium in hospitals. Prevention in a hospital or long-term care setting will lead to the avoidance of costs resulting from patients’ care. For example, the cost of caring for a patient with severe long-term cognitive impairment is high, and prevention of delirium could reduce the number of patients with such impairment. It will therefore reduce the cost of caring for such patients. Prevention could reduce lost life years and loss in health-related quality of life due to other adverse health outcomes associated with delirium.
The multi-component prevention interventions involve making an assessment of people at risk in order to identify and then modify risk factors associated with delirium. Delirium risk factors targeted in such interventions normally include cognitive impairment, sleep deprivation, immobility, visual and hearing impairments, and dehydration. The people at risk of delirium have their risk of delirium reduced through such interventions. The implementation of these interventions is usually done by a trained multi-disciplinary team of health-care staff. This means additional implementation cost. It would therefore be useful to know if this set of prevention interventions would be cost-effective. It was indeed found to be convincingly cost-effective by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and was recommended for use in medically ill people admitted to hospital.
It is cost-effective to target multi-component prevention interventions at elderly people at both intermediate and high risk for delirium. It is an attractive intervention to health-care systems. In the United Kingdom the savings for the intervention would spread unevenly between the National Health Service (NHS) and social care providers. The savings to the NHS may be modest and largely accrue through lower costs resulting from reduced hospital stay, whereas the savings to social care are likely to be more considerable resulting from an enduring and diminished burden of dependency and dementia, particularly reduced need for expensive care in long-term care settings. The NHS acute providers may need to invest to implement the intervention and to accrue savings to the wider public sector. The current NHS hospital funding system does not incentivise this type of investment, and this could be a major structural barrier to a widespread uptake of delirium prevention systems of care in the UK.
In the work undertaken as part of the NICE guideline on delirium, the additional cost of implementing the intervention was based on the description of the intervention that required additional staff for delivery. It is possible that the guideline provides an important under-estimate of cost-effectiveness. This is because it might be possible to implement the intervention within existing resources. The intervention is designed to address risk factors for delirium by delivering the sort of person-centred routine c
Here are three things we’re loving today: Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, and chocolate. Specifically, the Moroco Chocolat Hall of Fame. Did you have any idea this place existed? We certainly didn’t! Well, Lauren Oliver (DELIRIUM) and Veronica Roth (DIVERGENT) recently stopped by there while they were on tour in Toronto, immortalizing their handprints in chocolate. Take a look:
What we want to know is how they restrained themselves from licking their hands afterward.
Wishing you a delicious weekend!
Welcome to Day Two of
Armchair BEA, the bloggy event meant for those of us who couldn't make it to the actual BEA.
Today's topic is:
Best of 2011.
Well, this isn't very hard. There's one book that came out early this year, which I love and can't wait to re-read:
DELIRIUM, by Lauren Oliver.This book tore at my heart and left me hopeless, until I found out there was hope for them.
I love, love,
love this book, and I'm waiting for it to come out in Argentina, so I can have my own printed copy, since I read it on NetGalley.
And there were other books that I really liked this year (considering I haven't read very many books):
Red Glove, by Holly Black.A great way to continue this series;
I love Cassel!
Wither, by Lauren DeStefano.
Such a brilliant start to a new series!
It must be terrible knowing when you're going to die,
I can't imagine Rhine's world.
Both have 5-monkey-reviews :)
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I totally agree with you--I just couldn't read Delirium fast enough! I'll definitely have to check out the Margaret Atwood book that you mentioned. I really like the subject matter of Delirium, so I'll probably enjoy the book you recommended, too! :)
I have this book on my radar as well. I read her first novel, 'Before I Fall' and adored it. Very, very good writing to make me care about such an unsympathetic character.