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Geriatric sleep disorder
A condition in which an elderly person has trouble sleeping.
Dr. Geoffreysss Rutledgeee reviewed this
41 years experience
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Senior 60+ | Very common |
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A 38-year old female asked about a 90-year old female:
90yo,Refused food 20days,NG tube for 7,keep sleeping for 23.5h/d-tired! Geriatric said her system maybe shutting down. How to determine stroke/dying?
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A 43-year old asked:
What age does a person become a geriatric?
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A 36-year old asked:
Does medicare cover for geriatrics?
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A 92-year old asked:
GERIATRICS: When looking for skilled nursing care center for a 90 year old frail but social parent, what are the most important considerations?
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A member asked:
What is the definition or description of: Geriatrics?
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A 48-year old asked:
What age can you be called geriatric vs senior?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Is "Geriatric Pharmaton" multi vitamins really help full? Should i take it every morning?
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A 29-year old asked:
What are the difficulties with geriatric medications if no serious kidney or heart problems?
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A 33-year old asked:
Why does pneumonia cause dementia like symptoms in geriatric patients, but not in younger ones?
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A member asked:
Assuming you, as a geriatric physician, contracted by either a teaching hospital or a corporation operating --- --- several nursing homes for profit, are charged with examining residents at one or more nursing homes and one such resident discloses being:
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A 42-year old asked:
I woke up this morning with one eye swollen, crusty, hazy. do i see ophthalmologist or geriatrics doc?
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A 67-year old female asked:
UTI cleared one week. Continual concerns about delirium. Going to see a geriatric psychiatrist. Is that the right course of action?
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A 62-year old asked:
what is success rate on 2nd geriatric hip repair?
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A 45-year old asked:
Should i talk to a geriatric doctor about my dementia symptoms?
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A 46-year old asked:
How to best handle muscular atrophy of a geriatric ak amputee's stump when not wearing the artificial le?
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A 38-year old asked:
Does a geriatric assessment have more than one visit? Whats involved?
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A 48-year old asked:
What age does a person become a "geriatric" patient and get referred?
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A 42-year old asked:
How is anti-aging medicine (aam) different from geriatrics? Is anti-aging medicine (aam) different from geriatrics?
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A 39-year old male asked:
Chf diabetic hyponatraemia obesity geriatric with back and both lower limb weakness vitals r normalsevere generalized lower limb edema non pitting?
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A 43-year old asked:
What exercises should a geriatric do 3 weeks before a cast is removed, following a wrist fracture?
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A 36-year old asked:
What exercises should a geriatric do 3 weeks before a cast is removed, following a wrist fracture ?
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A 68-year old female asked about a 88-year old female:
Confused mother; would geriatric Dr switch Inderal (propranolol) or would she need to see a cardiologist?
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A 55-year old female asked about a male:
A geriatric patient who has had open heart surgery years ago and recently had a stroke and is on blood thinners, Can he take aleve (naproxen)?
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A 35-year old female asked about a 73-year old male:
What can cause sudden stroke/seizure symptoms with sudden onset of cardiac edema, low blood pressure and chest pressure in a non epileptic geriatric?
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A 29-year old male asked:
can lack of sleep increase b.p?
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A 18-year old female asked:
When my friend is sleeping her mouth were open wide and her tongue r moving like licking her teeth. y is that? she did it few time, pretty gross
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A 55-year old male asked:
I have stage 4 emphasema and nonischemic cardiomyopathy. I am worn out all the time even after a good niter sleep. Is this from copd? All labs r good
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A 30-year old female asked:
Me 30 years 5'1'' 49 kgs B.P is 124-81 .I sometimes feel a rush of blood in my head,severe headache, neck gets stiffened.unable to breath,and no sleep?
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A 20-year old female asked:
i sprayed bug killer spray while my babies r sleeping r they goin 2 be okay?
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A 55-year old male asked:
55 year old white male, recent chest pain in sleep, and at work as an RN. Stress test done and p wave flattend out during exercise?
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