Dementia caregiving takes toll on sleep

(Reuters Health) - Family caregivers for dementia patients don’t sleep as long or as well as other adults of the same age, a new study suggests.

In an analysis of the combined data from 35 earlier studies, researchers found that dementia caregivers slept about 3 hours less per week than age-matched adults, according to the report published in JAMA Network Open.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-caregivers-sleep/dementia-caregiving-takes-toll-on-sleep-idUSKCN1VD2J8

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