Tag: sleeping and Alzheimer’s

Study Suggests Association Between Sleep Patterns and Nursing Home Placement?

Older women with disturbed and fragmented sleep were three times more likely to be placed in a long-term care facility than elderly women with healthier sleep patterns.Using statistics from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures, investigators studied data of older women who wore devices that monitored sleeping patterns for three days....

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Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s?

Start good sleeping habits young!@Laurence Monneret A preliminary study being presented this month and reported in Web MD suggests that the poorer your sleep, the more likely you may be to develop Alzheimer’s disease. “We found that if people had a lot of awakenings during the night, more than five...

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