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Older Adults May Need Less Sleep
Posted on June 06, 2009
Along with the many complaints that may come with old age, insomnia ranks high on the list. Older people complain that they can't get a good night's sleep anymore, that they can't sleep the way they did when younger -- but their complaints may, in fact, be based on the faulty notion that they still require as much sleep as they did decades earlier. New research indicates that in fact, people over the age of 60 naturally sleep less than younger folks do. Naturally, of course, being the interpretive word here. The study, out of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, analyzed the s...
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