Sleep in older people

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 130-149

  Woodward, Michael ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG REPATRIATION HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

benzodiazepines; hypnotics; insomnia; morbidity; sleep

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTACID AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLONAZEPAM; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAZEPAM; DILTIAZEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESTAZOLAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; ISONIAZID; KETOCONAZOLE; NICOTINE; NITRAZEPAM; QUAZEPAM; RAMELTEON; RIVASTIGMINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TEMAZEPAM; TRIAZOLAM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL; ZOLPIDEM; ZOPICLONE;

ACCIDENT; AGGRESSION; AGING; AGITATION; AMNESIA; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOR VISION; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALLING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HICCUP; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCREASED APPETITE; INSOMNIA; LIBIDO DISORDER; LONG TERM CARE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MORTALITY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PANIC; PARANOIA; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; PHOTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RELAXATION TRAINING; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALIVATION; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DRIVING; SLEEP EATING; SLEEP WALKING; TACHYCARDIA; TASTE DISORDER; TONGUE SWELLING; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VISUAL DISORDER; VIVID DREAM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84857925866     PISSN: 09592598     EISSN: 14699036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959259811000232     Document Type: Review

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