Assessing age-related sleep disorders
Sharon Maher At the time of writing, lecturer/practitioner, In care of the older adult at oventry University and North Warwickshire NHS Trust
Sleep patterns change as a person ages, sometimes with troublesome effects. Sharon Maher examines ways of assessing and improving disrupted sleep
Sleep is defined as 'a period of diminished responsiveness to external stimuli' (Lee 1997) and is divided into four non-rapid eye movement stages and one rapid eye movement (REM) stage.
Nursing Older People.
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doi: 10.7748/nop.13.3.27.s13
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