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Assessing age-related sleep disorders

01 May 2001

Nursing Older People

Nursing older people

Sleep is defined as 'a period of diminished responsiveness to external stimuli' (Lee 1997) and is divided into four non-rapid eye movement stages and one rapid eye...

Sleep in the older adult

01 December 2004

Nursing Older People

CPD

Sleep problems tend to increase with age, so much so that insomnia can become entwined with other health issues among older people. This article looks at causes of...

No escaping our sexual past

28 May 2008

Nursing Standard

Reflections

Four years ago, Nursing Standard commissioned Mori to survey 2,000 adults on their perceptions of nurses. Twenty years earlier, a similar enquiry had suggested one...

Nursing as a vocation

06 June 2012

Nursing Standard

Opinion

At the launch of the prime minister’s national challenge on dementia in March, David Cameron said that a lack of compassion is the biggest problem the NHS has. He...