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AARP Smart Guide to Better Sleep

Learn 43 ways to help you get a good night’s rest and wake up feeling more refreshed

By

Robin Roenker,

 
Updated April 25, 2024
AARP
Reviewed by

Aatif M. Husain, M.D.

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Published May 31, 2022
/ Updated April 25, 2024
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Where to start • Create a haven for sleeping • When you're struggling

Since a third of our lives is spent sleeping, you’d think we’d all be experts at it. Yet for many Americans suffering from chronic sleep problems, falling — and staying — asleep is anything but easy. If you’ve spent restless nights tossing and turning, chasing sleep that just won’t come, you don’t have to live in groggy agony. Here are steps to fine-tune your sleep routine, so you, too, can drift off to dreamland more easily.

 

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WHERE TO START

1. Learn your numbers

In your 20s, you needed eight to ni

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