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Some clinical consequences of the rest and activity disturbance in Alzheimer's disease

Kingston Psychiatric Hospital and Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Peter Rindlisbacher, PhD

Queen's University Kingston, Canada

Recently, the use of activity monitoring has led to several interesting findings related to activity/rest issues in the care and management of Alzheimer patients. Evidence suggests that the "sleep" disturbances commonly reported in Alzheimer patients are actually a disturbance of the normal circadian cycle. This seems to be a normal progression of the disease and as such is not likely treatable with behavioral or pharmacological methods. These altered activity/rest patterns have direct implications for such areas as physical and pharmacological restraint use, supervision and injury risk, access and mobility issues, hospital ward design, and staffing policies.

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®, Vol. 10, No. 1, 16-25 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/153331759501000106


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