Previously we looked at the harm that can come to older bodies and minds when sleep is diminished or disrupted. This entry offers some hopeful ideas that can help you alter perhaps-unhelpful sleep habits. Perhaps the most important idea: Start now to establish healthy sleep patterns. Even in your later years, you can change how you think of sleep, and how you can develop sleep-practices thatMORE...
Sleep in our later years (Part 1)
The importance of adequate sleep has become a national mantra. Even though our personal practices about sleep may suggest otherwise, few of us would disagree with the basic presumptions. Recent research has focused on sleep in our later years. This and the following entry may help you assess your place in the sleep-spectrum—the amount and quality of your sleep patterns. First, some perhapsMORE...