We receive messages about the importance of sleep beginning in childhood. You may remember mandatory naps enforced by adults ...

With this in mind, here experts reveal how much sleep each age group should get a night: Early adulthood: 18-25. Young adults tend to go to bed later at night and prefer a lie-in in the morning ...

Some of this sleep is distributed to nap time, a doze designation that decreases with age. According to the National Sleep Foundation , by 18 months, most toddlers are averaging one nap a day ...

The amount of sleep a person needs recalibrates over time, and circadian rhythms change with age. The 16-year-old who stayed up until midnight may become a 36-year-old who gets drowsy by 10 p.m ...

Guidelines released for children from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine show adequate sleep is linked with improved attention, behavior, learning, mental and physical health at every age covered.

The real culprit to watch out for as we age isn't the amount of sleep, but quality of it. Older people have unique vulnerabilities around getting a deep, steady rest.

Middle-aged participants with two to three poor sleep characteristics had a brain age that was 1.6 years older than those with no more than one poor sleep characteristic, according to Cavaillès.

Sleep deprivation in middle age may increase risk of dementia, study finds By . Hannah Frishberg. Published April 20, 2021. Updated April 20, 2021, 2:48 p.m. ET. Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

"Our findings indicate that the quality rather than the quantity of sleep matters most for cognitive health in middle age," Leng said. People are supposed to get between seven and 10 hours of ...

Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much little sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say ...

Loss of slow-wave sleep as you age may increase your risk of developing dementia, according to a new study. “We found that aging was associated with a decline in the amount of the deepest stages ...