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A nurse is planning care for clients in a long-term care facility. The nurse is thinking critically about the differences between dementia and delirium. Which statement is true?
 
  A) Delirium is a chronic, typically irreversible deterioration of intellectual capacities caused by an organic disease.
  B) Dementia is always identified by electroencephalographic (EEG) changes.
  C) Delirium is an altered level of consciousness that is often acute and reversible.
  D) Dementia begins in old age and has a downhill course.
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