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Impact of bereavement and caring on sleep

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• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Women aged 65-74 >> Dessie - Interview 17 >> Her husband’s illness and subsequent death led Dessie to have many sleepless nights as she lay awake worrying about the future.

Dessie feels her sleep has got a lot worse, especially since she lost her husband. She finds she sometimes wakes up in the very early hours of the morning and can’t get back to sleep at all. Dessie is very active and likes to keep herself very busy, working in the garden, visiting friends and helping her family.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 75+ >> Robert - Interview 06 >> Robert used to dread nighttime because he knew he would be up several times and he was already exhausted.

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.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Women aged 65-74 >> Dessie - Interview 17 >> Dessie used to get up with her husband, who was ill with cancer, for a cup of tea in the middle of the night when he couldn’t sleep.

Dessie feels her sleep has got a lot worse, especially since she lost her husband. She finds she sometimes wakes up in the very early hours of the morning and can’t get back to sleep at all. Dessie is very active and likes to keep herself very busy, working in the garden, visiting friends and helping her family.