Are you getting the right amount of sleep?
Photographee.eu / Shutterstockfor middle-aged and older adults—coming in at seven hours. When sleep hours were below or above that number, researchers from both the University of Cambridge in the U.K. and Fudan University in China found that study participants had poorer cognitive performance, affecting memory, processing speed, and the ability to solve problems.
Sadly, getting solid sleep becomes more difficult as we age, characterized by difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, and decreased quality and quantity of sleep. According to researchers, finding solutions to these sleep challenges is vital for older populations., ScD, FMedSci, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge, said in a statement .
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