A critique of the evidence base for non-pharmacological sleep interventions for persons with dementia

Dementia

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-237

  Brown, Cary A ^a   Berry, Robyn ^a   Tan, Maria C ^a   Khoshia, Anjalee ^a   Turlapati, Lakshmi ^a   Swedlove, Fern ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bright light therapy; critical literature review; dementia; disordered sleep; non pharmacological interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876033507     PISSN: 14713012     EISSN: 17412684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471301211426909     Document Type: Article

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