Insomnia is a common condition in the elderly. According to statistics, the prevalence of insomnia in the elderly is 12%-40%. Repeated insomnia can cause anxiety, depression or fear, physical discomfort, reduce the quality of life and affect family harmony. At the same time, it can aggravate or induce cardiovascular diseases and other physical diseases. In the long time contact with elderly sleep disorder patients, there are many reasons that trigger sleep disorder in the elderly, but mainly focus on two aspects of life chores and somatic form disorders. Women who love to worry are prone to insomnia In the past year or so, 68-year-old Aunt Li has been troubled by the house leakage problem. When she went to the property, the other party admitted that the problem existed in the house itself and promised to help her repair and compensate for the loss. But once or twice, the problem is not only not solved, the other party also began to pass the buck. The more you think about it, the more upset you are, and the quality of sleep is falling, sometimes two or three hours a night, sometimes the whole night sleep. 3 months later, Auntie Li became haggard, no spirit, and finally could not hold up to hospital treatment. ”Sleep disorders caused by various life chores are most common in the elderly, such as this Auntie Li, after professional psychological testing showed moderate anxiety.” Although Auntie Li’s insomnia is serious, but her partner does not have any symptoms, “the elderly insomnia patients who come to the clinic, indeed the majority of women, most of these women hold the power in the home. It is also because of women’s own sensitive, serious, worrying personality traits, as a handful of the family they have to worry about too many things, so a little less than expected will trigger their emotional problems.” In addition to life’s chores, somatoform disorders are also one of the two common triggers of insomnia disorder in the elderly Aunt Liu, a 62-year-old retired teacher, came to Hangzhou after retirement to help her daughter bring up her children. At first, probably because of the change in living environment and habits, she felt a decline in sleep quality. After that, Auntie Liu slowly noticed that her appetite was also declining. Her daughter immediately accompanied her to the hospital for a checkup, and the gastroscopy showed a bit of superficial gastritis. This is a very minor problem, but Auntie Liu is feeling unusually nervous, every day on time to eat stomach medicine, but it is not getting better. The more Auntie Liu thinks about it, the more worried she is, she always feels that gastritis can be cancerous at any time, and the more anxious she is, the less she sleeps at night, and finally she goes to the insomnia clinic to see a doctor. ”I think Auntie Liu’s symptoms are typical of somatoform disorders, which are very common in the elderly population.” Somatoform disorder is the patient feels unwell, but there is no organic lesion after examination. Such patients are very concerned about their bodies and sometimes seem to have some excessive concern. They believe psychologically that they are ill, but often after a specialist examination they will find that it is obvious anxiety and depression that simply manifests as poor sleep. Seniors can learn six tricks to relieve insomnia They can do what they can to do self-regulation in their daily lives to improve their sleep quality. He made a summary, there are six main tricks: 1, is to develop a habitual sleep pattern, sleep before 11 pm; 2, is appropriate to do some physical therapy, such as foot soaking; 3, is to pay attention to diet, before bedtime can drink a glass of milk, add some honey better, dinner less thin things, or easy to get up at night; 4, is appropriate exercise, walk for half an hour before bedtime, let yourself slightly sweat; 5, is to use the massager to beat the back; 6, is to find their own fun, 6, is to find their own fun, the back of the massage. 6, is to find their own fun, to cultivate a good hobby, such as square dancing, to the elderly university classes, can distract some attention.