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• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Women aged 65-74 >> Anne - Interview 33 >> Being busy whilst on holiday and just getting away from normal everyday life helps Anne with sleep.

Anne is married and has three children, and six grandchildren. Anne retired from teaching some years ago and now works hard at keeping active, particularly enjoying spending lots of time in her garden. Anne feels that sleep is a waste of time and would much rather have more time to do the things she enjoys doing, such as writing and doing research.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 65-74 >> John - Interview 15 >> John found that being on holiday made him feel more relaxed and helped with his poor sleep.

John feels that a good night’s sleep for him would be about 7 hours, and the amount of sleep he gets is important to him, even if it is interrupted. Currently John feels he only gets about 5 ½ to 6 hours sleep and would like to get more, but would not seek help from his doctor until he felt lack of sleep impacted on whether he could drive safely. John tries to avoid sleeping during the day because he feels it will impact on how well he sleeps at night.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 75+ >> Robert - Interview 06 >> Robert believes 8 hours sleep would be ideal for him based on it being a convenient length of time and what he believes he needs to feel refreshed.

At the time of his interview Robert had recently lost his wife and was still trying to cope with the aftermath of her illness and his subsequent bereavement. Robert has found that he wakes up quite a lot in the night and hopes that, with time, his sleep pattern will settle back into the routine he had before his wife was ill. Robert likes to keep very active and enjoys engineering problems and making things. He has recently started to cycle again.

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• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Sleeping elsewhere >> Sleeping elsewhere

Sleeping elsewhere

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Making sense of poor sleep

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Dreams

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 75+ >> William - Interview 38 >> If William has been mentally active, such as reading a challenging book, he will dream a lot more.

William lives with his partner and has been retired for about 14 years. He likes to keep active by swimming four days a week and going to a gym class one day a week. He also attends art classes and is a member of a local literature club. William has noticed a change in his sleep over the last couple of years in that he finds he is having very vivid and sometimes difficult dreams. He notices he also has to get up now in the night because of cramp or to go to the toilet, which he never used to do.