Light as Therapy for Sleep Disorders and Depression in Older Adults.

What it found

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The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Ocular light exposure interventions for sleep, circadian rhythms, rest-activity cycles, mood, and cognitive function in older adults: An Overview of Cochrane and non-Cochrane Systematic Reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Programmed environmental illumination during autologous stem cell transplantation hospitalization for the treatment of multiple myeloma reduces severity of depression: A preliminary randomized controlled trial.Cancer medicine · 2018
   Trial
3. PURLs: Light therapy for nonseasonal major depressive disorder?The Journal of family practice · 2016
   Trial
4. Shift work and quality of sleep: effect of working in designed dynamic light.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2016
   Trial
5. [Effects of light therapy on sleep efficiency in older adults in long-term care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis].Journal of Korean biological nursing science · 2025
   Review
6. Life's Essential 8: Optimizing Health in Older Adults.JACC. Advances · 2023
   Article
7. Light modulatesAging · 2023
   Article
8. Timing of outdoor light exposure is associated with sleep-wake consolidation in community-dwelling older men.Frontiers in sleep · 2023
   Article
9. Light up: an intervention study of the effect of environmental dynamic lighting on sleep-wake rhythm, mood and behaviour in older adults with intellectual disabilities.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022
   Article
10. COVID-19 Pandemic Causing Depression in Different Sociodemographic Groups in Saudi Arabia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Article
11. Associations between objectively measured physical activity, sedentary behaviour and time in bed among 75+ community-dwelling Danish older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2021
    Article
12. The Treatment of Sleep Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disorders.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2021
    Review
13. Sleep-enhancing Effects of Phytoncide Via Behavioral, Electrophysiological, and Molecular Modeling Approaches.Experimental neurobiology · 2020
    Review
14. Bright Light Therapy and Circadian Cycles in Institutionalized Elders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020
    Article
15. Insomnia in the Older Adult.Sleep medicine clinics · 2018
    Review
16. Efficacy of light therapy on nonseasonal depression among elderly adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2018
    Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

Abstract

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