Long-term health conditions and their impact on people with sleep disturbances and dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sleep disturbances are common for people with dementia and can be distressing for them and their family. People with dementia live with an average of five other long-term conditions (LTCs). Little is known about the impact of LTCs on dementia and sleep. We aimed to explore this within the DREAMS START (Dementia Related Manual for Sleep; Strategies for relatives) trial of a multi-component intervention delivered to family carers, to consider how symptoms of LTCs impacted on carer ability to implement DREAMS START intervention strategies.

Method

We conducted a qualitative interview study recruited participants from the intervention arm of the DREAMS START trial in English NHS sites. Participants were 17 family carers of people with dementia, other LTCs and sleep dis

SUBMITTER: Rapaport P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12105245 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature