Older people still need seven or eight hours of sleep a night—similar to younger adults. Experts said getting enough sleep is more important than when older adults wake up. If you often wake up ...

Amelia MacIntyre, DO, is a board-certified family medicine physician. She is certified in osteopathic medicine. Older people still need seven or eight hours of sleep a night—similar to younger adults.

For many older adults, the teenage habit of staying up late, then sleeping the day away, is a distant memory. Aging often makes us gravitate toward earlier sleep and wake times—sometimes, to an ...