Medicine, Health Care 1 in 3 Older Adults…
Published: September 27, 2017.
Released by Michigan Medicine – University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, MI – Sleep doesn’t come easily for nearly half of older Americans, and more than a third have resorted to some sort of medication to help them doze off at night, according to new results from the National Poll on Healthy Aging.
This image shows what older Americans (age 65-80) are taking to help them get to sleep. National guidelines recommend that prescription sleep aids not be used by people in this ?
But most poll respondents said they hadn’t talked to their doctor about their sleep, even though more than a third said their sleep posed a problem. Half believe — incorrectly — that sleep problems just come naturally with age.
The poll was conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and is sponsored by AARP and Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical center.
Those who turn to medications may not realize that prescription, over-the-counter and even “natural” sleep aids carry health risks, especially for older adults, either alone or in combination with other substances. In fact, Chinese French German Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish