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Article: Study Looks at Insomnia in Elderly
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- March 17, 1999
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BRENDA C. COLEMAN, AP Medical Writer
AP Online
03-17-1999
Study Looks at Insomnia in Elderly
CHICAGO (AP) -- Older people with insomnia got more long-term help from eight weeks of psychotherapy than they did from eight weeks of sleeping pills or a combination of the two, researchers reported today.
The psychotherapy -- called cognitive behavioral therapy -- involves changing people's habits, such as spending too much time in bed. It also addresses erroneous beliefs, such as the notion that everyone needs eight hours of sleep.
``With eight treatment sessions, most of the time, I think we can help people,'' said Charles Morin, a clinical psychologist at Laval University in Quebec whose study ...