The Elderly Always Sleep Worse, and Other Myths of Aging
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Poor sleep among the elderly, it turns out, is not because of aging itself, but mostly because of illnesses or the medications used to treat them.
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You may be tempted to reach for a sleeping pill if you continually have trouble nodding off, but a small new study indicates you might be better off with cognitive therapy.
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Sirtris-sponsored study shows potential for the fight against aging.
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A daily doze?  Scientists say we need to wake up to the benefits of naps.  According to a recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine, people who napped 30 minutes a day, three times per week, were 37 percent less likely to die of heart disease.
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Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, research suggests.
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People who sleep less are more likely to be obese, according to new research by a clinical scientist at Bristol University. Dr Shahrad Taheri discovered that people who sleep for five hours a night are often
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NEW YORK  - The amount of time people spend   sleeping may affect their weight, study results suggest.
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Aging may not be all in the mind, but negative self-image and stereotypes have a significant impact on age-related symptoms of frailty and memory loss.
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Background: Total sleep deprivation in rodents and in humans has been associated with hyperphagia. Over the past 40 years, self-reported sleep duration in the United States has decreased by almost 2 hours.
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Now a team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress - like that caused by divorce, the loss of a job, or caring for an ill child or parent - may speed up the aging of the body&#39;s cells at the genetic level.
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Sometimes the march of technology can lull us to sleep.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- Older adults who get daily social and physical activity -- even for brief periods -- sleep better and have improved cognition, says a Northwestern University study in the Dec. 15 issue of Sleep.
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NEW YORK  - Older adults who suffer from insomnia may find it easier to drift off to sleep following brief behavioral therapy in which they learn about mechanisms that regulate sleep, factors that influence sleep, and behaviors that promote or interfere with sleep.
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NEW YORK  - Older adults who are simultaneously hostile and depressed may be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
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New research is challenging the idea that memory becomes more accurate with age.
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Contrary to what researchers expected, placing a loved one with dementia in a nursing home does not make caregivers feel better. In fact, most were just as depressed and anxious
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NEW YORK  - When children have sleep problems, their parents -- especially mothers -- often have sleep-deprived nights too, research shows.