How Much Is Stress Or Depression A Factor In Sleep Problems In The Elderly?
(10/30/00) These are pretty big factors. Depression at any age can interfere with sleep and there s a lot of research about changes in sleep structure with depression. This also occurs in older people who become depressed. Stress is an important cause, particularly for transient or short-term insomnia — loss of a loved one, for example, or a change in life such as retirement. In general, life transitions tend to occur more as people get older and these transitions, such as changes in living location, can be stressful. Good stress also can interfere with sleep. It s not just bad stress. www.healthcentral.com/BestDoctors/BestDoctorsFullText.cfm?ID=43423&storytype=BestDocs Job stress can cause depression If your boss doesn’t listen to you and the work keeps piling up, you may be on a collision course with depression, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=43640&src=n70 Mot
