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

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 1527-1537

  Figueiro, Mariana G ^a   Plitnick, Barbara A ^a   Lok, Anna ^a   Ejones, Geoffrey E ^a   Higgins, Patricia ^b,c   Rhornick, Thomas R ^c,d   Rea, Mark S ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ADRD; Circadian rhythms; Light therapy; Sleep disorders

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AGITATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHEN MANSFIELD AGITATION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNELL SCALE FOR DEPRESSION IN DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MINIMUM DATA SET ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NURSING HOMES; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907667703     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S68557     Document Type: Article

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