Vertigo and balance disorders in the elderly.

Old aged persons who complain of vertigo or balance disorders are increasing with prolongation of life time. Vertigo and balance disorders of old aged persons were studied by observing the patients who visited the Neurotological Clinic, Toranomon Hospital from 1969 to 1983.Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo was the most frequently seen disease in the inner ear lesions of old aged persons over 65 year-old. Vertigo caused by brain vascular lesions and such degenerative disease as spino-cerebellar degeneration were more frequently seen in central nervous system lesions of old aged persons.