Longitudinal Associations of Midlife Sleep Duration and Quality with Later Life Cognitive and Physical Functioning Decline
Description: Project Narrative: Public Health Significance The findings from the proposed study, Longitudinal Associations of Midlife Sleep Duration and Quality with Later Life Cognitive and Physical Functioning Decline, a continuing investigation of the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort study, will contribute new knowledge of public health significance regarding the impact of sleep duration and sleep quality during midlife on neurocognitive and physical functioning outcomes during later adulthood. These findings will contribute to the growing body of literature that suggests exposures during midlife are particularly important for outcomes during late life. As sleep habits are potentially modifiable, this knowledge supports the development of interventions to address obtaining healthy and sufficient sleep, especially during the decades of midlife that are frequently characterized by lack of adequate sleep. Clarification of the impact of midlife sleep on the important domains of cognitive and physical functioning will help to establish a stronger clinical case for sleep interventions that will result in improved healthy aging among the increasingly large elderly population the U.S.
Funder: National Institute on Aging
Funding type: research
Funder scheme: R01
Start date: 2018-09-01
End date: 2024-05-31
Investigator: ERIKA W HAGEN
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Topic: Sleep and related disorders
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Funded outputs count: 39
Funder award ID: R01AG058680
OpenAlex ID: G1264430077