Sleep difficulties, incident dementia and all-cause mortality among older adults across 8 years: Findings from the National Health and Aging Trends Study.

ABSTRACT: Sleep difficulties have been implicated in the development and progression of dementia and in all-cause mortality. This study examines the relationship between sleep difficulties, incident dementia and all-cause mortality over 8 years of follow-up among a nationally representative sample of older (≥65 years) adults in the United States. We used data collected from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) from 2011 to 2018, a prospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries. At baseline, the NHATS sample comprised 6,376 older adults who were representative of 32 million older adults. Respondents reported routine difficulty initiating sleep or difficulty falling back asleep "most nights" or "every night" in each study year. In each year, dementia was determined by either self-rep

SUBMITTER: Robbins R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9204609 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature