Effective treatments for age-related sleep disturbances

Geriatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 47-52

  Vitiello, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; MELATONIN;

AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0032732608     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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