| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Sleep disturbances among nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Arne Fetveit, Bjorn Bjorvatn |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 7, July 2002 |
| Pages | pp 604-609 |
| Keywords | Sleep behaviour ; Sleep disorders ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Measurement ; Norway. |
| Annotation | The sleep patterns of an entire nursing home population in Norway, consisting of 29 mainly demented long-term patients, were evaluated for 14 consecutive days using actigraph measurements and nursing staff observations. Actigraphy showed a mean sleep onset latency of one hour, and a mean wake after sleep onset of more than 2 hours, while there was no findings for early morning awakening. Mean sleep efficiency was 75%, with more than 13 hours spent in bed. 72% of the subjects had sleep efficiency below 85%. Nursing staff reported sleep onset latency of more than 30 minutes in 158 of the 203 analysed days, while early morning awakening was reported in only 12 of 203 days. Actigraphal measurements and nursing staff observations gave similar results. The diminished ability of sustained sleep in theses residents may have been influenced by the prolonged time in bed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020814214 A |
| Classmark | CG: CTS: KX: LHB: 3R: 76N |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|