This wandering puts the person at risk of injury. For instance, he or she might fall in the dark. Disturbed sleep has a longer range effect. If an impaired person's sleep is disturbed, the caregiver's sleep is normally disturbed. Both face a serious health threat.
Lack of sleep can worsen the symptoms of the illness in the impaired person.
It can threaten the caregiver's health and undermine the caregiver's ability to cope and to perform the caregiving tasks. Some causes of restlessness, wandering and disturbed sleep will respond to medical treatment. Even so, your health care team should have ideas about how to manage and cope with the problem. As a caregiver, you play a key role in helping your health care team look at and solve these problems. You will need to provide detailed reports about the person in your care.