Sleeping disturbances and pharmacological/nonpharmacological interventions in old people.

Sleeping disturbance constitutes a major problem occurring in 25% of people aged over 65. Among the most frequent reasons of insomnia one can mention the overuse of coffee, alcohol, smoking, using some drugs, stress, depression, neurosis, dementia, chronic diseases. Idiopathic insomnia constitutes less than 5% of cases.

[The incidence of reversible dementia in 145 patients referred on suspicion of dementia].

Introduction: We performed a retrospective study of 145 consecutive patients referred on suspicion of dementia. We were particularly interested in the occurrence of reversible dementia. Dementia was defined with reference to the ICD-10 criteria.