Harnessing the Power of Sleep for Healthy Brain Ageing

About half of older adults have chronic sleep complaints. Getting enough sleep is vital to your physical, emotional, and cognitive health but how do we ensure a good nights’ sleep?

In 2023, the Centre of Research Excellence to Optimise Sleep in Brain Ageing and Neurodegeneration (CogSleep) and the Sleep Health Foundation joined forces to host a discussion about the importance of sleep for healthy brain ageing. CogSleep was a government funded, 5-year program that brings together a world class cross-disciplinary team of researchers in the fields of ageing, dementia, chronobiology, sleep, and neuroimaging.

To support the event, a booklet was produced to compile important information on the topic of cognitive health and sleep.