Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are
substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep …

Older adults do not sleep as well as younger adults. Why? What alterations in sleep quantity
and quality occur as we age, and are there functional consequences? What are the …

Healthy aging is characterized by a diminished quality of sleep with decreased sleep
duration and increased time awake after sleep onset. Older adults awaken more frequently …

Abstract Purpose of Review Sleep habits, sleep physiology, and sleep disorders change
with increasing age. However, there is a longstanding debate regarding whether older …

Context: Increasing evidence suggests that circadian and sleep parameters influence
cognitive function with aging. Objective: To evaluate observational studies of sleep duration …

In quest of new avenues to explain, predict, and treat pathophysiological conditions during
aging, research on sleep and aging has flourished. Despite the great scientific potential to …

Better sleep quality has been associated with better episodic memory performance in young
adults. However, the strength of sleep-memory associations in aging has not been well …

Alterations in sleep patterns are common among older adults; further, short and long sleep
durations have been linked with impaired cognitive performance in older individuals. Yet …

This article reviews the growing literature examining sleep and cognitive functioning in older
adults. The main focus is on normal, age-related cognitive changes, as opposed to …

Multiple studies have examined associations between sleep and cognition in older adults,
but a majority of these depend on self-reports on sleep and utilize cognitive tests that assess …