Nursing Management of Dementia: Eating & Sleep Problems

Course overview

Nurses working with older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia must manage the eating and sleep problems encountered in these older adults. This course will review the complexity of the eating process, how dementia affects the ability to eat as well as strategies to enhance and improve the nutritional status of individuals with a diagnosis of dementia. Additionally, the presentation will review the biological processes occurring during normal sleep, the consequences of not getting an adequate amount of REM sleep, triggers that impair an older person's ability to sleep, and ways to increase length/improve the quality of restful sleep are also discussed.