Measuring Light Exposure and its Effects on Sleep and Behavior in Care Center Residents [ACC Care Center - Sacramento, CA]
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Center for Design for an Aging Society, Portland, OR (United States)
- Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States). School of Public Health
- ACC Care Center, Sacramento, CA (United States)
A study of tunable lighting at the ACC Care Center, a 99-bed nursing center in Sacramento, CA, with a large population of dementia patients. The study involved a partnership between experts in lighting design, environmental design, and light measurement; experts in measuring resident behavioral outcomes in nursing centers; and leaders from a nursing center with previously installed programmable, tunable LED lighting. The objective was to test a strategy for measuring and documenting light exposure for typical nursing-center residents, and to evaluate the data in terms of various metrics for human circadian responses over the course of a day. The study builds on a prior field evaluation of tunable lighting at the ACC Care Center.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B) (Solid-State Lighting)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 1607668
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-148186; 8171
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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