In a recent report of a notable health institution, since 1980’s there has been an increase in the number or elderly patients who suffers from anxiety. This has been brought about by many societal factors in which old people worry so much about. This psychological disorder also enhances the chances of developing more illnesses.

Clinical anxiety disorders involve unrealistic or extreme worry about everything. This may include worrying about children, or physical health. Anxiety disorders become more common as we get older because medical, psychological, and social problems tend to build up.

Persistent or extreme anxiety can be a major contributor to a decrease in vigour and therefore attenuating the desire to live a quality life, and can be a sign of other problems, such as depression, dementia, physical illness, or side effects to drug treatment. Anxiety can be an indication connected with many health problems common in older adults, including heart disease, lung disease, liver and other endocrine problems, dietary problem and other health concerns.

Geriatric anxiety can often be “silent”—missed or complicated to identify as older adults tend to ignore psychiatric problems; have multiple psychiatric, medical, and tablets issues; and present anxiety differently than do younger patients. Late-life anxiety disorders are a “geriatric biggies,” being twice as prevalent as dementia among older adults, and four to eight times more prevalent than major depressive disorders. Often anxiety leads to a more serious problem of depression and other neurological disorders.

Treatment of late-life anxiety can be provided by caregivers and other specialized geriatric or elderly care health facilities that promises to promote a healthy way of longer life, void of any worries. Increasing the quality of life that is to have a worry free time among elderly is a great way of reinvesting after retirement.