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Senior Health Site by NIH Now Has Section on Sleep
April 5, 2005 Sleep patterns change is people age
but the National Institute for Health says waking up tired or disturbed
sleep are not a normal part of aging. Recognizing the importance of
sleep for older Americans, the agency has added a section on sleep to
their Website on senior health.
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This new information about sleep and aging is at
www.nihseniorhealth.gov. The Web site also offers hints for sleeping
well. For example, exercising regularly improves the quality of your
nighttime sleep and helps you sleep more soundly, and doing the same
things each night tell your body that it's time to wind down.
Like food and water, adequate sleep is essential to
good health and quality of life. Not sleeping well can lead to a number
of problems. For example, older adults who have poor nighttime sleep are
more likely to have a depressed mood, attention and memory problems,
excessive daytime sleepiness, more nighttime falls, and to use more
over-the-counter or prescription sleep aids. Sleep problems also are
associated with a poorer quality of life.
Although sleep patterns change as we age,
disturbed sleep and waking up tired every day are not part of normal
aging. In fact, many healthy older adults report few or no sleep
problems, says Andrew A. Monjan, Ph.D., M.P.H., chief of the
Neurobiology of Aging Branch of the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
NIHSeniorHealth now has accurate, up-to-date information to help all
older Americans get a good nights sleep.
One of the fastest growing age groups using the
Internet, older Americans increasingly turn to the World Wide Web for
health information. In fact, 66 percent of wired seniors surf for
health and medical information when they go online. NIHSeniorHealth, a
joint effort of the NIA and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), was
designed especially with seniors in mind. The site is based on the
latest research on cognition and aging. It features short, easy-to-read
segments of information that can be accessed in a variety of formats,
including various large-print type sizes, open-captioned videos, and
even an audio version. Additional topics coming soon to the site include
problems with taste and smell, eye diseases, stroke, and osteoporosis.
The site links to MedlinePlus, NLMs premier, more detailed site for
consumer health information.
The NIA leads the Federal effort supporting and conducting research on
aging and the health and well-being of older people. The NLM, the
world's largest library of the health sciences, creates and sponsors
Web-based health information resources for the public and professionals.
All three are components of the National Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, Maryland, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
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