Exercise and Sleep in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

Current Sleep Medicine Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 232-240

  Varrasse, Miranda ^a   Li, Junxin ^a   Gooneratne, Nalaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Insomnia; Older adults; Sleep disturbances

Indexed keywords

AGING; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LATENT PERIOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP;

EID: 84988631129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40675-015-0028-6     Document Type: Review

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