--- title: Five Best: Too Much Sleep Can Be Risky for Older Americans description: Too much sleep can be risky for older Americans, OPEC is dead and more. canonical: https://time.com/4794082/too-much-sleep-can-be-risky-for-older-americans/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-25T16:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:48.798Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Too Much Sleep Can Be Risky for Older Americans og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4794082/too-much-sleep-can-be-risky-for-older-americans/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Too Much Sleep Can Be Risky for Older Americans twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Too Much Sleep Can Be Risky for Older Americans by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 25, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 25, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**For older Americans, too much sleep can be risky.**](https://www.bu.edu/today/2017/med-researchers-too-much-sleep-could-signal-dementia/) By Michael S. Goldberg in _BU Today_ **2\.** [**OPEC is dead.**](https://theweek.com/articles/699210/opec-dead) By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in the _Week_ **3\.** [**Soon, you can have any clothing you like generate power for your phone.**](http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/shelf-power-generating-clothes-are-almost) By the _University of Massachusetts Amherst_ **4\.** [**Americans want more than higher education is giving.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/05/the-broken-promise-of-higher-education/526995/) By Anne-Marie Slaughter in the _Atlantic_ **5\.** [**The secret to happiness might be ignoring what you can’t change.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/to-be-happier-focus-on-whats-within-your-control) By Massimo Pigliucci in _Aeon_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4794082/too-much-sleep-can-be-risky-for-older-americans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4794082/too-much-sleep-can-be-risky-for-older-americans/"},"headline":"Too Much Sleep Can Be Risky for Older Americans","datePublished":"2017-05-25T16:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:48.798Z","description":"These are today's five best","url":"https://time.com/4794082/too-much-sleep-can-be-risky-for-older-americans/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Technology","Happiness","health","OPEC"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4794082/too-much-sleep-can-be-risky-for-older-americans/","name":"Too Much Sleep Can Be Risky for Older Americans"}}]}] ```