Sleep disturbances and cognitive decline: recommendations on clinical assessment and the management.

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Center of Sleep Medicine, Villa Serena Hospital, Città S. Angelo, Pescara, Italy. Email:

Published: September 2016

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  • In 2004, the Italian Dementia Research Association (SINDem) was established to address cognitive decline and its related issues, such as sleep disturbances.
  • In 2012, SINDem published a multicenter study that highlighted the high prevalence of sleep problems among patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia, with the support of the Italian government and research institutions.
  • In 2014, SINDem released recommendations for healthcare professionals to improve the clinical assessment and management of sleep disorders in dementia patients, aiming for standardized care and collaborative research.

Article Abstract

In 2004, in Genoa (Italy), the Italian Dementia Research Association (SINDem) was born. The first congress of this new scientific society took place in Rome in 2006. SINDem soon recognized the importance to investigate sleep problems in cognitive decline and created a national "sleep study group "composed by neurologists and sleep specialists. In 2012, The SINDem study group, in close relationship with the Italian Association of sleep medicine (AIMS), published the study "Prevalence of sleep disturbances in mild cognitive impairment and dementing disorders: a multicenter Italian clinical cross-sectional study on 431 patients ", confirming the high prevalence of sleep disturbances in a wide Italian population of persons with cognitive decline. The study was supported by a grant from the Italian Minister of Health and was conducted with the fundamental contribution of the Italian National Research Center (CNR). In 2014, the same group published the paper "Recommendations of the Sleep Study Group of the Italian Dementia Research Association (SINDem) on clinical assessment and management of sleep disorders in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a clinical review". The recommendations are wide and directed to professionals (neurologists but not exclusively) to try to establish uniform levels of care, promote collaborative studies into areas of uncertainty, and define the qualitative characteristics of Dementia Reference Centers about sleep disturbances.

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