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Sleep Disorders in Elderly / Ageing and Sleep

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a. Age and Sleep: 
  • With age, sleep tends to get shorter in duration. On an average there is less sleep, even in healthy non-complaining older adults, compared to the younger individuals. 
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is increased fragmentation of sleep in older people. They wake up more often and for longer periods of time during the night.
  • Sleep becomes shallow with increasing age. As a person grows older, there is less delta (or slow wave) sleep, which usually occurs when sufficient growth hormone is produced. This is considered as the ‘classic sleep hallmark’ of ageing. 
  • Although men lose more slow wave then women, it is the latter who report more sleep disturbances. 
    • In older people there are less delta waves or slow waves – this is the classic hallmark of growing old. 

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