Cognitive impairment definition

Cognitive impairment means a deficiency in a person’s short-term or long-term memory; orientation as to person, place, and time; deductive or abstract reasoning; or judgment as it relates to safety awareness.
Cognitive impairment means that due to an Injury or Sickness, the Insured Employee:
Cognitive impairment means that the Insured Employee or Dependent:

Examples of Cognitive impairment in a sentence

  • Cognitive impairment and medication adherence in outpatients with heart failure.

  • Cognitive impairment in older adults with heart failure: Prevalence, documentation, and impact on outcomes.


More Definitions of Cognitive impairment

Cognitive impairment means the loss or deterioration in intellectual capacity that meets these requirements:
Cognitive impairment means a deficiency in a person’s:
Cognitive impairment means a deficiency in a person’s short− or long−term memory, orientation as to person, place and time, deductive or abstract reasoning, or judgment as it relates to safety awareness.
Cognitive impairment means that the person, as determined by the clinical judgment of the LTC Nurse or the AA, does not have the capability to think, reason, remember or learn required for self-care, communicating needs, directing care givers and/or using appropriate judgment for maintenance of their own health or safety. The clinical judgment of cognitive impairment is based on MSQ performance in combination with a more general evaluation of cognitive function from interaction with the person during the UCAT assessment.
Cognitive impairment means a severe deficit in mental capability that affects a waiver individual's areas of functioning such as thought processes, problem solving, judgment, memory, or comprehension that interferes with such things as reality orientation, ability to care for self, ability to recognize danger to self or others, or impulse control.
Cognitive impairment means the loss of those thought processes that orchestrate relatively simple ideas, movements, or actions into goal-directed behavior.
Cognitive impairment generally means a loss or deterioration in a person’s intellectual capacity and includes diseases like Alzheimer’s and various forms of irreversible dementia. “Activities of daily living” generally means routine daily self-care activities, such as getting dressed, eating, using the bathroom and getting in and out of bed.