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Sleep Patterns During Afternoon Naps in the Young and Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

S. A. Lewis
S. A. Lewis*
Affiliation:
Sleep Laboratory, University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10
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Recently there has been interest in the nocturnal sleep of the elderly. The studies by McGhie and Russel (1962), Weiss et al. (1962), Kales et al. (1967) demonstrated that, compared with young adults, elderly people have a reduced total sleep time, more awakenings following sleep onset and a moderate reduction in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. In other words, elderly people have a more disturbed sleep. While this group have a shortened night's sleep, they are given to taking afternoon naps, and it may be that through these they can compensate for their insomnia at night.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 518 , January 1969 , pp. 107 - 108
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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