Dream of feeling less tired? The trick comes with age
The elderly are doing something right. New research into the effects of age on sleep suggests our older community sleep less, but report better quality sleep, and feel more awake during the day.“Although sleep is a biomarker for general health and pathological conditions, its changes across age and gender are poorly understood.” Researchers from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, have responded to this gap in sleep research in a recent paper published in Annals of Medicine: ‘Age and gender variations of sleep in subjects without sleep disorders