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 ...

Insomnia is a significant health and quality of life concern for older adults, with up to half of all adults over the age of 65 experiencing insomnia symptoms. In a new study, researchers in the ...

Sleep disturbances, including restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea, and insomnia, limit quality of life in older adults with dementia and their caregivers and often lead to ...

Sleeping pill use is common among older adults, but is it safe? Get answers about the risks and recommendations from an expert.

In a cohort of community-dwelling older adults, poor sleep quality was indicative of incident motoric cognitive risk syndrome as well as increased physical and mental disability, according to ...

A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on January 15, 2025, in Volume 17, Issue 1, titled "Association between physical activity practice and sleep quality of older people in ...

For older adults, each incremental increase in insomnia symptoms was linked to a 20% higher risk of becoming disabled in some aspect of daily life within the following year.

UC San Francisco study finds women over 80 who experience increased daytime sleepiness face twice the risk of developing dementia.

"Frequent snoring was associated with greater problem behaviors but not with lower cognition," the researchers wrote in the paper.