ArticleClinical interventions in aging2018
Pilot study to examine the effects of indoor daylight exposure on depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with dementia in long-term care communities.
Article in Clinical interventions in aging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Dementia Enlightened?! A Systematic Literature Review of the Influence of Indoor Environmental Light on the Health of Older Persons with Dementia in Long-Term Care Facilities.Clinical interventions in aging · 2021Pooled it
- Expert Consensus on the Care and Management of Patients with Cognitive Impairment in China.Neuroscience bulletin · 2020Pooled it
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- An interpretable machine learning tool for in-home monitoring of agitation episodes in people living with dementia: a proof-of-concept study.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Light Therapy for Older People with Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Examining the Relationships Between Indoor Environmental Quality Parameters Pertaining to Light, Noise, Temperature, and Humidity and the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of People Living With Dementia: Scoping Review.Interactive journal of medical research · 2024Article
- Light, sleep-wake rhythm, and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in care home patients: Revisiting the sundowning syndrome.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2022Review
- Effect of Ambient Bright Light on Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in People With Dementia: A Systematic Review.Innovation in aging · 2022Review
- Lighting and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Spotlight on Sleep and Depression.Lighting research & technology (London, England : 2001) · 2021Article
- Impact of sensory interventions on the quality of life of long-term care residents: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Management of Late-Life Depression in the Context of Cognitive Impairment: a Review of the Recent Literature.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
A 12-week study was conducted in eight dementia care communities involving 77 participants addressing the hypothesis that an intervention of increasing indoor exposure to daylight will reduce depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms. At four communities, staff were enlisted to increase daylight exposure by taking participants to a perimeter room with daylight exposure for socialization in the morning (8:00-10:00 AM) each day. At the other four communities, a control group were taken to a similar sized area without daylight for socialization under typical electrical lighting conditions. Participants in the daylight intervention experienced an average decrease over the trial in the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Nursing Home Version (NPI-NH) scores (
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