SLEEPING PATTERNS IN ELDERLY

Sleeping Patterns in Elderly

Sleeping Patterns in Elderly

Introduction

According to Tina Rodriguez, it has been argued that there is controversy over whether the need for sleep decreases with age. However, healthy older people tend to need and get the same amount of sleep than when they were young, although they have different architecture and different distribution at daily life in the nursing homes and the hospital. Compared with young adults, it has been observed that several prominent changes in the nursing homes and the hospital affect both the nocturnal sleep architecture and the circadian rhythm of sleep-wake cycle. These entire changes help make the dream of the elderly is characterized by being more fragile than the younger subjects.

Discussion

Sleeping Patterns in Hospitals and the Nursing Homes

In the nursing homes and hospitals, sleeping patterns in the elderly for a long time remained unheeded, despite the more frequent complaints of poor sleep and increased consumption of hypnotics. According to several epidemiological studies of older age groups (65 and older), up 35% of the elderly and the elderly exhibit the problems associated with sleep. Dissatisfaction with sleep is seen in 25% of men and 50% of older women. More than 25% of patients late age regularly or frequently use sleeping pills. Sleep is one of the factors in assessing the quality of life for the elderly. (Rodriguez, 2009) The main manifestations of sleep disorders in the elderly at the nursing homes and hospitals are;

Persistent complaints of insomnia

Persistent difficulty falling asleep

Superficial and intermittent sleep

The presence of bright, multi-dreams, often painful content

Early awakening

The feeling of anxiety of anxiety on waking

Difficulty or inability to sleep again

Lack of sense of relaxation of sleep

In addition to this, it is found that the elderly patients in the hospitals and nursing homes awake frequently during the first hours of ...