Tell me about your nap and I'll tell you about your health: what some snoozes reveal about aging
The total sleep time decreases linearly as we age. Doctors consider prolonged morning rests a negative sign.
Sleep and its architecture change with age. Many people, as they get older, claim to feel like they sleep less. It's not just a feeling, it's reality. A well-known meta-analysis published in 2004 in the journal Sleep concluded that total sleep time decreases linearly, at a rate of 10 to 12 minutes per decade of adulthood, until we reach the age of 60, at which point that time stabilizes.
The same study found that the proportion of time we actually spend asleep in bed is only 80% in people aged 70, while in adolescence this proportion reaches 95%.
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