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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Community normal sleep and memory impairment in elderly people related Of: Chen Jianmin Li-Ming Wu, Hong Liu Xiaoping long [Abstract] Objective To investigate the community of sleep and memory impairment in normal elderly relevance. Methods Randomly selected elderly community in Tangshan City, the application No. 2 Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT ) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) for memory and sleep, respectively, quality evaluation. Results 647 elderly people 38.8 percent incidence of sleep disorders, memory disorders incidence of 78.4 percent, sleep disorders and memory disorders in related stories in the memory (immediate), image recognition, orientation, recall the story (delayed) , recalled route (delayed), remembering the names and total standard score there are significant differences (P lt;0.05 or P lt;0.01). Conclusion higher incidence of memory impairment in older persons, affected by sleep. [Keywords:] community normal elderly; memory disorders; sleep disorder; RBMT Animal was found by sleep deprivation, and memory-related biochemical substances affected by sleep, thus affecting the normal functioning of memory (1,2). Haimov (3) and other sleep disorders study the relationship between cognitive impairment and sleep disorders found in the memory span, attention allocation, time estimation, executive function, two-dimensional integration problems, etc., suggesting that sleep disturbances and cognitive function. memory gradually diminishes with increasing age, the research community normal sleep and memory impairment in the elderly correlation has become a research hotspot in geriatrics. In this paper, 647gt; = 60 years old normal investigation and analysis of the community, preliminary study of sleep and memory impairment in normal elderly correlation to provide the basis for effective interventions. 1 Subjects and methods 1.1 object from October 2008 to May 2009, Tangshan City, a randomly selected urb