As we age, our sleep needs and habits change. While we tend to sleep more in our younger years, this gradually decreases as we get older. “Our sleep tends to get shorter and more interrupted in the ...

Older adults with cognitive frailty – a condition combining physical weakness and mental decline – face sleep problems that may seriously affect their health and quality of life, according to new ...

It’s not a secret that sleep can get more difficult with age — research suggests that up to half of older adults complain of sleep problems. That translates to some 27 million Americans over 65.

Among the less desirable aspects of advancing age, poor sleep often ranks highly. The British Geriatrics Society highlights this issue, stating that approximately 40 per cent of people aged 65 and ...

About half of older men suffer from sleep problems, back pain or both, according to Soomi Lee, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State. Lee recently led a study to ...

A new study from Penn State University found that older adults who experience symptoms of insomnia and/or use sleep medications face a substantially higher risk of developing disabilities that affect ...

An analysis of the Einstein Aging Study data showed that older adults who experience longer nighttime wakefulness tend to ...

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 ...

A large U.S. study following older men for six years reveals that back pain quietly undermines sleep health over time, challenging assumptions that poor sleep is the primary culprit. Study: Back pain ...