{"id":1552,"date":"2010-10-11T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2010-10-11T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:52:19","slug":"you%e2%80%99re-getting-sleepy-as-you-age-catching-those-40-winks-gets-tougher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2010\/10\/you%e2%80%99re-getting-sleepy-as-you-age-catching-those-40-winks-gets-tougher\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Getting Sleepy: As You Age, Catching Those 40 Winks Gets Tougher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1554\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px;\" title=\"inside_201010_sleep\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/inside_201010_sleep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>The October issue of <em>Community Health<\/em> features an article about how sleep changes with age, sleep problems affecting seniors, and how these problems can be alleviated or treated.  Insomnia, the most common sleep ailment, may worsen with age.  Although it\u2019s not always easy to treat, insomnia can be minimized by practicing good sleep hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSleep is really important,\u201d says Dr. Stephen Akers, a sleep medicine specialist at Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey. \u201cWe spend one-third of our life asleep, and it has a big impact on how we feel during the daytime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Unfortunately for seniors, a number of issues\u2014such as pain, incontinence and just plain getting older\u2014make it tougher to get a restful night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we age, dreaming sleep is pretty well preserved, but we lose more and more of this deep, slow-wave sleep,\u201d Akers says. \u201cIt\u2019s probably slow-wave sleep that makes us feel refreshed and alert, at least in men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth care practitioners sometimes ignore insomnia because they\u2019re not trained to deal with it, so it\u2019s important to see a sleep specialist,\u201d says Stephen M. 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