Tailored lighting intervention improves measures of sleep, depression, and agitation in persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia living in long-term care facilities

BACKGROUND: Light therapy has shown great promise as a nonpharmacological method to improve symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), with preliminary studies demonstrating that appropriately timed light exposure can improve nighttime sleep efficiency, reduce nocturn...

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Autores principales: Figueiro, Mariana G, Plitnick, Barbara A, Lok, Anna, Jones, Geoffrey E, Higgins, Patricia, Hornick, Thomas R, Rea, Mark S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246779
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S68557

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246779
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S68557

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