Aging and Sleep 2012

The meeting will feature an exciting program with a focus on prevention, innovative diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders in older adults.

Main topics

Geriatric sleep medicine covers a broad array of issues and IASRG will consider some of these topics at this meeting:

      • Anesthesia and sleep in the elderly
      • Frailty, disability, multiple morbidity and sleep disorders
      • Central sleep apnea – A diagnostic and treatment challenge
      • Obstructive sleep apnea and consequences
      • Methodology in geriatric sleep medicine
      • Intermittent hypoxia
      • Neurodegenerative disease and sleep in the elderly
      • Cognition, dementia and sleep
      • Sleep and pulmonary disease
      • Research perspectives in geriatric sleep medicine
      • Late life insomnia
      • Quality of life

Topics listed above are subject to minor modifications. A more detailed meeting program will be announced early in 2012.