Academic Ageing Seminar - Sleep, ageing and the natural history of insomnia
Location: Seminar Room, Wolfson Research Centre, Campus for Ageing and Vitality
Time/Date: 3rd December 2009, 12:30 - 13:30
You are invited to attend the Academic Ageing Seminar on Thursday 3 December 2009 in the Wolfson Seminar Room, Institute for Ageing and Health. The seminar will take place at 12.30 pm with sandwiches available from 12 noon.
The speaker is Professor Kevin Morgan, Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Clinical Sleep Research Unit at Loughborough University and the title of the seminar is 'Sleep, ageing and the natural history of insomnia'.
A brief abstract is below.
All welcome.
Abstract:
Insomnia, the most frequently reported psychological symptom in Britain, significantly impairs personal functioning, degrades quality of life, delays recovery from acute illness episodes, and is an independent risk factor for major depression.
The prevalence of insomnia is also strongly age related, increasing steadily from early adulthood, and affecting 20-25% of people over 65. Yet insomnia remains poorly understood and ineffectively managed within most healthcare systems.
Using recently completed epidemiological and experimental analyses this presentation examines the origins and natural history of sleep disturbance in later life.
In addition to informing the clinical management of sleep disorders among older people, the results emphasise the value of a lifecourse perspective in understanding later life phenomena.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/staff/academic/kevin-morgan.html
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ssehs/research/centres-institutes/clinical-sleep/
Published: 19th November 2009
