When researcher's evaluated the relationships between disability, insomnia 💤 and sleep medication 💊 use, they found that as older people used more sleep medication or experienced more insomnia symptoms, they moved more rapidly towards greater disability.
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Insomnia and sleep medication use connected to disability in older adults
For adults over the age of 65, higher levels of both insomnia symptoms and sleep medication use were associated with higher risk of disability a year later, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State Department of Biobehavioral Health and the…