| |
121 University Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-6172
Email
|
|
Projects List |
Project
|
|
Aging Well, Sleeping Efficiently: Intervention Studies (AgeWise) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Principal Investigator: |
Timothy Monk, Department of Psychiatry
Charles F. Reynolds III, MD
Daniel J. Buysse, MD;
Victoria J. Grochocinski, PhD;
Richard Schulz, Gerontology, UCSUR |
|
|
|
Funder: |
National Institute on Aging |
|
|
|
Period: |
June 2003 to May 2009 |
|
|
|
Overview: |
The overall aim of this program project is to determine whether the lives, health and well-being of normal elderly people can be improved by behavioral interventions designed to enhance their sleep. Project 1 (Monk) seeks to determine whether the lives of recently widowed seniors (65y+) can be improved by Social Rhythm Therapy in which lifestyle regularity is increased and healthy sleep practices followed. Project 2 (Hall) is concerned with spousal caregivers (65y+) of early Alzheimer patients and an intervention designed to enhance their sleep and reduce the stress of caregiving. Project 3 (Buysse) aims to compare the efficacy of a brief behavioral treatment for insomnia to an information-only control condition in patients (65y+) with the usual morbidities of aging seen in primary care settings. Project 4 (Reynolds) will test the efficacy of restricting time in bed (by 30 minutes) plus education in healthy sleep practices as a means of maintaining or improving sleep quality in the very old (75y+) and thus enhancing their daytime alertness, mood, cognitive function, and well being. Project 5 (Nofzinger) seeks to identify sleep-related functional neuroanatomic changes that accompany age-related changes and intervention related changes of sleep in healthy elders (75y+). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
