A new study has found sleepiness during the day -- for women of a certain age -- could be associated with dementia.

"The change in daily sleep patterns may be intertwined with cognitive aging, and may serve as an early marker or risk factor ...

In a cohort of older community-dwelling women, unfavorable sleep patterns were associated with cognitive impairment and higher dementia risk, according to data published in Neurology. “Sleep is ...

UC San Francisco study finds women over 80 who experience increased daytime sleepiness face twice the risk of developing ...

A recent study determined the lifetime risk of developing dementia is double that of previous estimates. But there’s good ...

Women aged 80 and older who experience increased sleepiness are twice as likely to develop dementia as those with stable ...

An estimated 80% of women have some type of menopause symptoms — and the more symptoms they experience, the greater the ...

Napping during the day could be early symptom of dementia in elderly women - It is estimated that 982,000 Britons have ...

The brain of a US woman with Down syndrome showed the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease upon her death, yet she remained ...

But a new study has discovered some women who sleep during the day could be at twice the risk of developing dementia.

For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double ...

What senior citizen doesn’t enjoy an occasional afternoon nap? But a new study published in the medical journal Neurology ...