Anxiety among older adults is a common health concern, but some medications may help ease symptoms. These medications include duloxetine, escitalopram, buspirone, venlafaxine, and sertraline.

Insomnia is one of the most common medical complaints, especially in older adults ... Your doctor may be able to recommend which medications might work best for you and how long you should ...

A total of 69.5% of patients with insomnia aged 65 years and older were misusing medication. Extended duration was the most common inappropriate medication use category. Inappropriate use of ...

Elderly patients. The presence of psychiatric disease. Risk population (history of addictive behaviour). Tolerance. The efficacy and safety of hypnotics in the treatment of childhood insomnia has ...

Insomnia affects women and people assigned female at birth (AFAB) more than men and people assigned male at birth and older people more ... doesn't always require treatment.

Patients and Methods: In this open-label study, 30 elderly outpatients with insomnia were randomised to receive 2 weeks of treatment with lormetazepam 0.5mg + SHT or SHT alone, followed by a 1 ...

Insomnia is common ... is believed to be less beneficial in older patients. A recent randomized, controlled trial compared CBT with the non-benzodiazepine treatment zopiclone in adults ≥55 ...

doctors risk doing more harm than good when they prescribe such drugs to patients aged 65 and older for insomnia and other disorders. Continuous ingestion of such drugs over a long period vastly ...

Research led by Michael Irwin, MD, is the first to examine the mechanisms of the interaction between insomnia and depression ...