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Month: August 2024

Should we be napping more?

Older adults (65+) do not sleep as well as younger adults.  And it’s not that older adults need less sleep, rather they are unable to generate the sleep that they still need. Can the practice of afternoon naps make up for this lose of sleep at night?  An observational study published online Jan. 25, 2021, by General Psychiatry looked at 2,214 healthy people ages 60 and older in China, where afternoon naps are common. The participants were asked about whether…