The Hidden Connection Between Poor Sleep and Cognitive Decline

Most people know sleep gets harder with age. What nobody tells you is that the sleep problems you're ignoring right now the insomnia, the restless nights, the medication you've been on for 20 years may be doing more damage than you think.In this episode, Dr. Arun Karlamanga sits down with Dr. Cathy Alessi, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Sleep Medicine at UCLA, to talk about what's actually happening with sleep in older adults and what clinicians and patients need to know but rarely hear. They cover why the sleeping pill that "worked" for two decades may have stopped working long ago, the surprisingly strong link between sleep disorders and cognitive decline, and the one question your doctor should be asking at every visit but probably isn't.