0710 The Association of Late-Life Depression, Cognitive Functioning, and Sleep Disorder in Aging

Validation of the geriatric sleep questionnaire

“…Sleep structure, amount, and quality undergo changes in old age [1][2][3][4][5][6]27], and sleep disorders are common in older people [5,6,14]. Sleep changes and disorders have a significant impact on physical [17,28] and mental health [7,10,14,22,[28][29][30][31], and increase the risk of mortality [6,10] among older people. Notwithstanding, a specific measure that assesses sleep in older people was still to be created.…”

“…Suboptimal sleep, in turn, is responsible for health problems in later life, including physical problems [17,[26][27][28], mental difficulties [7,10,14,22,[28][29][30][31], affectivity imbalance [32], and cognitive impairment [7,10,33,34]. Moreover, poor sleep quality increases the risk of mortality [6,10].…”