“Older adult may better enjoy good sleep than younger”, this proved by a telephonic study of more than 150,000 adults’ suggestions that admitted, after cross the age of 40s, sleep quality gets better with age.
As per study conducted by the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania, the researchers found that people in their 80s had reported better sleep and the fewest complaints about sleep disturbances and daytime fatigue compared to other age groups.
However the researchers had asked questions for their subjective opinion to volunteers about their race, income, education, mood and general health to measure their sleep hours and disturbances.
As per the resulted suggestions, they found that being depressed or having health problems was linked to poor sleep quality as age rose, lowest number of complaints are coming from the over-70s.
Talking to reporters, Dr Michael Grandner, the researcher said, “These results force us to re-think what we know about sleep in older people – men and women.”
“We have got to get away from all these myths about ageing – many people are very content with their sleep,” he added.
He said that one major reason for setting up the study was to confirm the precise opposite – that sleep quality declined in old age. It is possible that older people are sleeping worse, but simply feet better about it.
Now the “myth” of age alone is a factor that affect sleep is cleared, the exception of having poor sleep was middle age. And if young adults feel poor sleep, then it could be improved with age.
