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Fred Kobylarz, MD, is co-director of the Center for Healthy Aging at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. ‘Sundowning’ is a term that refers to behavior changes in people with dementia ...
Elderly people often experience multiple comorbidities that may contribute to the phenomenon of sundowning syndrome through neurodegeneration. Neurological disorders: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease , Huntington's disease , Lewy body dementia , fronto-temporal dementia, subcortical dementia.
Anxiety is a relatively uncommon diagnosis in older adults and it is difficult to determine its prevalence. [97] Anxiety disorders in late life are more likely to be under-diagnosed because of medical comorbidity, cognitive decline, and changes in life circumstances that younger adults do not face. [98]
Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. [1] [2] [3] Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response to a present threat, whereas anxiety is the anticipation of a future one. [4]
Medical News Today is a web-based outlet for medical information and news, targeted at both the general public and physicians. All posted content is available online (>250,000 articles as of January 2014), and the earliest available article dates from May 2003. The website was founded in 2003 by Alastair Hazell and Christian Nordqvist. [1]
General OCD, absent of specific relationship-related obsessions, can also affect a person's interpersonal relationships, especially intimate romantic relationships. Women with OCD have been shown to have decreased sexual function and satisfaction compared to women with generalized anxiety disorder. [9]
This shift in attitudes and behaviors has combined with medical advances to prolong a sexually active life and change the landscape of aging sexuality. [3] Sexual health and expression reflects a physical, mental, and emotional need that affects individual health and intimacy quality for older couples' relationships. Dr.
In their lifetime, 20% to 25% of women and 7% to 12% of men will have a major depressive episode. [35] The peak period of development is between the ages of 25 and 44. [ 3 ] The onset of major depressive episodes or MDD often occurs in people in their mid-20s and less often in those over 65.