Anyone can have trouble maintaining sleep cycles, but older adults are far more likely to have difficulty sleeping than younger adults. Often this will simply result in them taking daytime naps or ...

A new study shows that elderly women sleep better than elderly men even though women consistently report that their sleep is shorter and poorer. A study in the Oct.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows ...

Babies can sleep through almost anything, and we have all heard the expression "sleeping like a baby." But as we get older, we seem to wake up at the slightest sound. The question, then, is: Can ...

Experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley Feb. 1, 2013 — -- An experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, found that seniors enjoy less quality ...

"We take into account other side effects of antidepressants, including weight gain and sexual side effects, but we are less concerned about sleep, especially when we use the SSRIs," Muhammad Tahir, MD ...

Ashwagandha root extract, a revered herb of Ayurveda, was associated with improvements in quality of life, sleep quality, and mental alertness in elderly patients, according to study findings.

A group of inhibitory neurons, whose loss leads to sleep disruption in experimental animals, are substantially diminished among the elderly and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, researchers have ...

The elderly sleep much more lightly for a good reason – to keep their family safe, scientists claim. Early waking is an ancient throwback to when we lived in caves and needed to keep an eye out for ...

The National Sleep Foundation has reported that 24 percent of people aged 65-84 have been diagnosed with four or more medical conditions. In general, people with poor health or chronic medical ...

We are aware that the quality, quantity and nature of sleep changes across the life span. This is especially obvious as development occurs and we see the changes from infancy to childhood to ...