EXERCISE CALMS AGITATION ASSOCIATED WITH DEMENTIA

In a pilot study, agitation and functioning improved in a group of elderly nursing home residents suffering from severe dementia when they engaged in just 30 minutes of supervised exercise three times a week.
Edris Aman, a second-year medical student at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri, who conducted the study, told Reuters Health: [...]

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WHEN SENIORS HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING

Sleep disturbances – including trouble getting to sleep or waking frequently throughout the night – are common in elderly people.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine offers this list of common reasons for sleep problems in older people:
* Increased need to urinate.
* Pain, particularly from arthritis.
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NIGHTTIME URINATION LINKED TO HIGHER DEATH RATE AMONG ELDERLY

New Japanese research suggests that elderly people who get up two or more times a night to urinate face a higher risk of death.
The findings don’t offer a possible explanation for the cause of the higher death rate. It could be that a factor like disrupted sleep may play a role, instead of the need [...]

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