Older people 'struggle to sleep' during recession
Published: 08 September 2009
Sleep is much harder for those in an older age group during the recession - something that may be helped with less stress or even some Egyptian cotton bed linen.
The current economic downturn is taking its toll on the oldest working demographic, according to new research.Alex Dregan of the University of Surrey discovered that the number of people losing sleep due to worries about money during the last few months has risen sharply, yet those between the ages of 57 and 63 are having the most trouble under the bed linen each evening.
Experiences of insomnia reported by 30,000 people between 1984 and 2006 were scoured for trends by the expert, who found that the age group's bad sleepers had doubled during the last recession in the early 90s.
Mr Dregan linked the phenomenon to the current downward movements in the financial markets and said the results are very likely the same as before, if not worse.
Many people are able to survive well with less than the recommended eight hours of rest, according to recent research by the University of California in San Francisco, noting that a rare genetic mutation contributes to this.
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