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Navigating daylight saving while living with Alzheimer’s: How caregivers can help

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Adjusting the clocks for daylight saving time can be jarring for anyone, however, for people living with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the time shift can impact their behaviour massively.

Up to 45 per cent of people with these illnesses already struggle getting sleep, and changing the clocks an hour forwards or back can make it even more difficult.

The key to combatting this loop? Attentive caregivers and an up-to-date schedule and routine, according to health-care professionals.

Global’s Katherine Ward explains.

For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10050768/daylight-saving-time-alzheimers-dementia/

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