What do systematic reviews say?

Summary of findings table ‐ Carer interventions vs usual care

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 2 participants
  Moderate

Summary of findings table ‐ Multimodal interventions vs usual care

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  7 studies · 589 participants
  Low

Active tDCS plus semantic and phonological word‐retrieval training vs sham tDCS plus semantic and phonological word‐retrieval training

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for improving language and communication in people with primary progressive aphasia 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 37 participants
  Very low

Active tDCS plus phonological word‐retrieval training vs sham tDCS plus phonological word‐retrieval training

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for improving language and communication in people with primary progressive aphasia 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 6 participants
  Very low

Active tDCS plus semantic word‐retrieval training vs sham tDCS plus semantic word‐retrieval training

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for improving language and communication in people with primary progressive aphasia 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 3 participants
  Very low

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) vs active control‐site rTMS

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for improving language and communication in people with primary progressive aphasia 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 27 participants
  Very low

tDCS vs sham tDCS

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for improving language and communication in people with primary progressive aphasia 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 15 participants
  Very low

Summary of findings table ‐ Physical activities vs usual care

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 167 participants
  Moderate

Summary of findings table ‐ Social activities vs usual care

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  2 studies · 236 participants
  Low

Summary of findings table ‐ Light therapy vs usual care

• Non‐pharmacological interventions for sleep disturbances in people with dementia 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  7 studies · 318 participants
  Very low

Methylphenidate vs placebo

Methylphenidate showed no clear difference in adverse events compared with placebo (low certainty).

• Pharmacological interventions for apathy in Alzheimer's disease 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 1.28 [0.67, 2.42]
  3 studies · 145 participants
  Low

Modafinil vs placebo

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

• Pharmacological interventions for apathy in Alzheimer's disease 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  Studies not reported
  No studies found