Sleep in People with Dementia and Their Caregivers

Carol A Manning, Anna E Youngkin, Mark S Quigg · 2025

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Carol Manning, Anna Youngkin, and Mark Quigg study sleep in people with dementia and the family who care for them. Their twenty twenty-five study works with eight pairs recruited from a Virginia Alzheimer center. Poor sleep can feed Alzheimer risk, and dementia often shatters sleep for patient and caregiver alike.

Each pair wore wrist trackers for fourteen days and took an overnight sleep study. Patient diagnosis rested on scans, biomarkers, and team review. The study weighs how patient behavior, thought, and sleep ripple into caregiver rest and mood. Caregiver burden, stress, and depression are known strains. The pair view may point to shared fixes, like treating both sleeps at once.

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CREATORCarol A Manning, Anna E Youngkin, Mark S Quigg
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11710703

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