There are few things more irritating than a restless night and sadly, as we get older, difficulty drifting off and getting a good night's sleep only becomes more and more challenging. According to a new large-scale study, this frequent age-related insomnia could be linked to memory deterioration and dementia.
This conclusion was drawn by researchers at Concordia University after their sleep study of more than 26,000 older people found that, over a three-year period, a decline in memory and increased prevalence of dementia-related diseases correlated with those who had experienced frequent sleepless nights.
While this might seem to be bad news for the older age groups involved in this study (40-85), discovering this link between sleeplessness and age-related memory decline only places more importance on seeking medical treatment for sleep disorders - to slow or prevent the onset of age-related decline.
