Changes in sleep are a natural part of aging. Many older adults cope with problems such as insomnia, apnea, restless legs and changes in their body’s internal rhythms. Co-occurring disorders and side ...

People with poor sleep have brain ages that are an average of 1 year older than their chronological age, a new study has ...

A comprehensive guide to understanding your body's sleep needs at every stage of life. This article explains the science behind the ideal bedtime and provides a clear, age-by-age breakdown of how to ...

When young adults start working, the amount of daily physical activity they do increases sharply, only to fall away again over the new few years, while the amount of sleep they get falls slightly, ...

It is widely known that adults should get around seven to nine hours of sleep per night at any age. But each stage of life comes with its own set of biological, cognitive and developmental needs, ...

Insufficient sleep duration and late sleep onset, alone or in combination, were associated with increased glycemic variability in middle-aged and older adults. Suboptimal sleep, including inadequate ...

A new international study drawing on 73 million nights of data reveals that our sleep patterns are seriously shaped by the day of the week, the season, and where we live. Working with sleep data from ...

For older adults, too much or too little sleep has been tied to cognitive issues. By Dana G. Smith Getting too little sleep later in life is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease.