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The sleep of older people in hospital and nursing homes
Author(s) -
ERSSER STEVEN,
WILES ANNE,
TAYLOR HEIDI,
WADE SIAN,
WALSH ROSEMARY,
BENTLEY THERESA
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00267.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sleep (system call) , nursing , nursing homes , rehabilitation , older people , affect (linguistics) , gerontology , psychology , physical therapy , communication , computer science , operating system
• Disturbed sleep can affect personal wellbeing and impede the rehabilitation and recovery of older people from illness. • This paper reports the findings of a pilot study which included examination of sleep quality and sleep patterns of older people in community hospital and nursing home settings. • A marked proportion of older people reported sleeping well in nursing care settings, and those in nursing homes slept better than those in the community hospital. • The main causes of sleep disturbance in both settings were: needing to go to the toilet, noise, pain, and discomfort; a similar pattern was seen across the different settings. • No discernible difference was found in quality of sleep and whether patients felt rested or not between those patients on hypnotic medication and those who were not. • The implications of the findings for practice and future research are discussed.