1 is a geriatrician and is a nursing scientist, both at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC/GRECC in Ohio. is a LFL Global Industry Standard manager and is a DFSS Black Belt/Senior Systems Engineer at GE Lighting, all in Cleveland, Ohio. is Light and Health Program director and associate professor at the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. Dr. Hornick is an associate professor of medicine and Dr. Higgins is an associate professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Although research has yet to provide a definitive answer about whether circadian-active light can benefit patients with dementia, a VA pilot study shows promising results.