10/16/2013
The content of this blog has been reposted with permission from Laurie Blanchard at InfoLTC blog, at http://infoltc.blogspot.com/. Ms. Blanchard is the librarian at the Misericordia Health Centre Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Prior to working at the Misericordia Health Centre, Laurie worked at the J.W. Crane Memorial Library, Deer Lodge Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba for 20 years. She authors the InfoLTC blog for which she won a Manitoba Library Association's Innovation Award and the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster at the CHLA/ABSC 2009 Conference in Winnipeg. Ms. Blanchard is a former editor of the Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana (now the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) , and currently serves on the board of the CHLA. Ms. Blanchard's views are solely her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Clinical Geriatrics or of HMP Communications, LLC.
The Sleep Function Interdisciplinary Group (SAFIG) at the University of Alberta with the help of the CanadianDementia Knowledge Translation Network have created the website Sleep: a critical but overlooked aspect of dementia management. This website reviews the research evidence on the effects that lack of sleep may have on a person with dementia and suggests non-pharmacological ways to get a better sleep.
The group was also involved in a creating a national survey on healthcare providers’ use of non-pharmacological sleep interventions for persons with dementia. The results of the survey are available in their report, Understanding healthcare providers barriers to prescribing and recommending non-pharmacological sleep interventions for persons diagnoses with dementia.
To read the report, please visit: http://www.ab-cca.ca/uploads/files/Website%20Content/Report/Sleep%20and%20Dementia%20finalreportFeb720133%201.pdf
To visit the website, Sleep: a critical but overlooked aspect of dementia management, please click here.
