Author Question: Your grandmother has recently been complaining about not sleeping well and not feeling rested. Given ... (Read 23 times)

deesands · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Your grandmother has recently been complaining about not sleeping well and not feeling rested. Given what you learned in this chapter on sleep and waking, what would be the BEST advice you could give her (other than to see her doctor for a checkup, of course)?

a. Make sure she eats an evening meal low in carbohydrates to minimize production of serotonin.
b. Put the television in her bedroom and tell her to fall asleep watching the evening news.
c. Keep mentally active doing things in which she is interested.
d. The first thing she should do is get sleeping pills from her doctor and take them every night.

Question 2

The sleep of seniors may be more easily disrupted due to less frequent

a. REM episodes.
b. sleep spindles.
c. K-complexes.
d. myoclonia.