Premedication is usually carried using anxiolytic and / or narcotic drugs in order to reduce anxiety and discomfort related to the intervention and anesthesia. The preoperative anxiety in fact increases the demand for intra and post operative anesthetics and analgesics and contribute to increase the post operative pain. For this reason the use of a pharmacological premedication is controversial in elderly patient, for the risk of side effects of drugs on one side, and for the other to the discomfort resulting from the increased level of anxiety in absence of premedication. .