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Objectively measured sleep quality and functional impairment in family caregivers of older adults with memory disorders

Adam Spira1, Leah Friedman2,4, Laura Haagenson2,4, Javaid Sheikh2,3,4 and Jerome Yesavage2,3,4

1Division of Geriatrics and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA

2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA

3Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, CA, USA

4Department of Veterans Affairs Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 28 November – 2 December 2007

Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S246doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S246

Published: 17 April 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Poor sleep quality has been linked to functional impairment in several populations [1-4] but this association has not been investigated widely in family caregivers of older adults with memory disorders. We investigated the association between objectively measured sleep and functional status in a sample of family caregivers.


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