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.