title: [Sleep disorders in old age].
abstract: Complaints about troubled and insufficient sleep increase with age. Sleep disorders are not a disease, but a symptom of different causes. The most important is the etiological treatment. For a symptomatic treatment, we dispose of psychological help, physiotherapy and phytotherapy. Hypnotic drugs should be used only if absolutely necessary and for a short time. One has to find the adequate drug for each case and the dose corresponding to the age of the patient. As up today there are no drugs inducing physiological sleep.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kaiser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000627:therapeutic use; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012893:Sleep Wake Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy
chemical_list: D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
vernacular_title: Schlafstörungen im Alter.