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Article: Sleep disorders in the elderly.(Letter to the editor)
- Article from:
- Sleep Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
- Author:
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As a former health care administrator of two well-respected, community-based, continuing care settings for the elderly [Iowa Jewish Senior Life Center, Des Moines, Iowa, and the Robison Jewish Health Center, Portland, Ore], I thought that I was aware of the nature of sleep disorders in this population. I was wrong. It was not until recently, when I developed a sleep disorder myself, that I began to reflect on the impact that such disorders could have on residents of my former facilities, as well as on the nearly 17,000 nursing facilities nationwide caring for an estimated 1,600,000 residents under care.
If you asked nursing staff members in such a setting about ...