Insomnia in elderly persons

• Main Author: N. V. Pizova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Remedium Group LLC 2016-12-01
• Series: Медицинский совет
• Subjects: insomnia; risk factors; elderly age; therapy; aminophenyl-butyric acid
• Online Access: https://www.med-sovet.pro/jour/article/view/1578

Sleep disturbance (insomnia) is one of the most frequent state accompanying functional and organic disturbances in the human body. There are the following types of disturbances of this cycle: insomnia (a disturbance related to difficulties of the beginning or maintenance of sleep), hypersomnia (increased requirement in sleep, in this case duration of sleep during a day might exceed 12 hours) and disturbance of the sleep rhythm (change of the sleep time distribution during a day, which manifests itself in displacement of the falling asleep time – more early or more late or even sleep-awake state cycle inversion, i.e. falling asleep at day time and staying awake at night). By various calculations 90% of people of various age and sex have sleep disturbance during life time [1].