Under-Mattress Sensors Predict Dementia Agitation: 333-Night Cohort
Daytime agitation in dementia fluctuates day-to-day, and a 2026 explanatory study from Liu et al. used contactless under-mattress sensors in 55 long-term-care residents and an external 17-person home-monitoring cohort to show that lower nocturnal respiratory rate and higher activity instability robustly predict next-day agitation occurrence — but not severity.1 Research Highlights Lower breathing rate: adjusted …