Older Adult Caregivers Of Dementia Sufferers Have Worse Sleep Than Noncaregivers

A study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults. When sleep was measured objectively, and after adjusting for depressive symptoms, age, health condition and education, adults who take care of a person suffering from dementia took longer to fall sleep and had less total sleep than noncaregivers. Tags: Insomnia Sleeping problems Insomnia information Sleepin