Identify Types Of Mental illness

nsomnia: Many adults suffer from inability to sleep especially at night while some actually suffer from subjective insomnia wherein they think they don't sleep and insist so whereas they do sleep. Some don't sleep early, some are waking up periodically I.e. they are unable to sleep for long time. Underlying factors may be depression, effects of drugs, loneliness etc.

Brain Failure : it implies impairment of the higher cortical activities such as cognitive function, intellect, concentration, memory abrupt and it may be due to effects of drugs, infections, strokes, heart disease and metabolic disorders.

Hypochondrasis : This is morbid preoccupation with ideas and complains ill health. This may persist as an established personality trait but arising or intensified in old age, it is frequently symptomatic of a depressive or real physical illness. Other forms of mental health problems among the elderly are paranoid, neurosis, obsession, depression, anxiety, hysterical conversion, psychosis.

other problems of old age include but not limited to the following:

•  Urinary incontinence

• Skin disorders

• Renal disease 

• Communication disorder.