Pharmacy Daily | Benefits of sleep

EXPERTS will highlight the link between sleep, mental health and other sleep disorders during Sleep Health Week (25 Sep-01 Oct).

The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and the Monash University School of Psychological Sciences will host two Sleep Health Week events in partnership with the Sleep Health Foundation.

With this year's theme being - Better Sleep. Better Health. - both organisations will focus on equipping Australians with the knowledge and tools to improve their sleep health, and the benefits for overall health, productivity and relationships.

An international advisory committee, led by Dr Tracey Sletten from the Monash School of Psychological Sciences, has also provided new US National Sleep Foundation guidelines, HERE, outlining the importance of consistency in sleep timing for health and performance, while supporting a "weekend sleep-in" on non-work days if people have a sleep debt.

For the first event, HERE, the Director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Prof Charles Czeisler will highlight the advances in our understanding of the human circadian system since melatonin's role in sleep was discovered 40 years ago.

In the second event, HERE, broadcaster Jon Faine will moderate a panel discussion with CogSleep and other experts for people living with dementia, their carers and anyone interested in healthy brain ageing.