Question

a nurse working with older adult clients on a medical unit, is assessing their sleep patterns. Which client would the nurse identify as demonstrating the typical sleep pattern of an older adult

Answer 1

The nurse should look for age 60 and above adults as a way of demonstrating sleep patterns.

An age 80 patient falls asleep early in the evening but wakes up before dawn. The patient who falls asleep early in the evening but wakes up before dawn is demonstrating the behavior of phase advance. The other patients are not demonstrating typical sleep patterns of an older person.

Most people find that aging causes them to have a harder time falling asleep. They wake up more often during the night and earlier in the morning. Secretion of less melatonin causes arduous sleep patterns.

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