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 ...

August 3, 2006 — Elderly people with severe sleep apnea have more than twice the risk for ischemic stroke as their counterparts with no or mild apnea, a new Spanish study shows. "This is the first ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly and middle-aged adults with obstructive sleep apnea may be a bigger drain on healthcare services than their counterparts without the common sleep disorder, new ...

Lack of Sleep Linked to Increased Risk of High Blood Pressure In a study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers from the United States, The Netherlands, and Mexico analyzed ...

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 case-control study finds altered sleep events and characteristics exhibited in elderly patients with epilepsy compared to younger patients with epilepsy, as well as those without. Elderly patients ...