This is a prospective, multicenter study designed to evaluate the benefits of an evening music-based intervention on sundowning syndrome in patients with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders in a Protect lLife Unit setting.
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Patients aged 60 and over who meet the diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, including mainly: Lewy body disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal degeneration, vascular encephalopathy, alcoholic dementia, primary progressive aphasia syndrome, posterior cortical atrophy syndrome (France Alzheimer, 2024).
Patient living in a secure care unit
If taking psychotropic drugs, they must have been stable for 3 months
Refusal to participate
Participation in a study on a drug/medical device/treatment technique that may affect sleep or behavior.
Highly sedated patients,
Patients with acute medical instability,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Lead sponsor
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL)
Collaborator