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Sundowning in patients with dementia is important!

What is sundowning (sundown syndrome)? There is no standard definition of sundowning. But, anyone who is around patients with major neurocognitive disorder (dementia) knows that many of these patients have a repeated pattern of predictable worsening in the late afternoon and evening (Canevelli et al., 2016). Since this is around the time the sun sets,…

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