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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults
Published on: January 26, 2019
The existing state of knowledge about sleep health in community-dwelling older persons - a scoping review
Sandra Öberg1, Christina Sandlund2, Björn Westerlind3,4,5
1Department of Nursing Science, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
Objectives:
It is widely known that sleep disorders are a common problem among older persons. Few reviews have described current knowledge about the holistic concept of sleep health of community-dwelling older people.
Aim:
This study aimed to describe the current state of knowledge and identify research gaps concerning sleep health among community-dwelling older persons.
Method:
We conducted a scoping review. Searches were conducted in three databases (Medline, CINAHL, and PsycINFO) to identify scientific articles including outcomes with all five sleep health dimensions (sleep duration, sleep continuity, timing, wakefulness/daytime sleepiness, and sleep quality) among community-dwelling older persons aged ≥65 years. Eight articles were included from a total of 1826 hits, with sample sizes between 1413 and 6485.
Results:
The sleep health outcomes of community-dwelling older adults differed between the sexes. Older persons with at least two or more poor sleep health dimensions might have increased risk for depression, higher healthcare costs and mortality, while self-reported better sleep health might be associated with lower odds of frailty.
Conclusion:
Future research is needed to confirm the findings by investigating the multidimensional concept of sleep health in a general older population. The identified knowledge gaps are how persons ≥80 years' experience their sleep health, and how sleep medicine is prescribed to treat sleep problems in persons ≥80 years in different care contexts.
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