Are seizures in the elderly easily identified
Seizures in the elderly are notoriously underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed.
The average delay to diagnosis in patients age 59 to 96 years is about 1.7 years.
These patients tend not to seek help initially, but even after medical evaluation, only 28% of elderly patients with complex partial seizures and about 50% of the patients with generalized seizures are correctly diagnosed initially.
