Managing Sleep Maintenance Insomnia in Older Adults

Program Overview

This activity provides evidence-based insights, with an emphasis on current gaps in sleep maintenance insomnia. You will learn about the current challenges associated with managing sleep maintenance insomnia and how to utilize currently available and emerging treatments for management, especially in your older and elderly patients.

Credit Expired

CE Credit Expired

Expires: December 12, 2020

Target Audience

Relevant Terms: Behavioral Health, Insomnia, Neuroscience

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

Describe current challenges associated with managing sleep maintenance insomnia, especially in older and elderly patients
Utilize currently available and emerging treatments to manage sleep maintenance insomnia, including those that avoid residual next-day effects, especially in older and elderly populations

Activity Faculty

Russell P. Rosenberg, PhD

Chief Science Officer & CEO
NeuroTrials Research
Atlanta, GA

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities. 