Melatonin may be a beneficial option for elderly individuals experiencing difficulties with falling asleep and staying asleep, and this should be discussed with a physician.

“And in the elderly that's when melatonin might be a viable option. And this should be discussed with a physician, of course, but you know, you're way past the puberty time point. In most cases, people who are in their 70s, and 80s, and 90s, are not churning out a lot of GnRH and luteinizing hormone to begin with. And that's where struggles with falling asleep and staying asleep, all the same parameters and things we've described before still apply, light exercise temperature etc but that's where melatonin might be of greatest benefit.”