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 ...

A landmark study shows that African-American seniors who have trouble falling asleep are at higher risk of having memory problems -- raising the possibility that identifying and treating sleep ...

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 ...

Poor sleep among the elderly may be a result of declining brain cell growth and development, according to UCLA researchers. Researchers in the lab of Noor Alam, an adjunct professor of medicine at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...