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Describing current sleep

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Health, illness and pain

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Going to the toilet in the night

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• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 65-74 >> Fred - Interview 20 >> Fred may be very tired when he gets into bed initially, but after about 5 minutes he is wide awake again.

Fred often finds it difficult to get to sleep. He also finds that if he wakes up in the night he finds it takes a long time to get back to sleep. Sometimes he comes downstairs and has a cigarette in the back garden before trying to go back up and get to sleep. Fred noticed his sleep changed after he retired and feels this may be because he isn’t quite as active.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 65-74 >> Fred - Interview 20 >> Fred has noticed a big improvement in the number of times he has to get up to go to the toilet since his prostate surgery, although he still sometimes

Fred often finds it difficult to get to sleep. He also finds that if he wakes up in the night he finds it takes a long time to get back to sleep. Sometimes he comes downstairs and has a cigarette in the back garden before trying to go back up and get to sleep. Fred noticed his sleep changed after he retired and feels this may be because he isn’t quite as active.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 65-74 >> Fred - Interview 20 >> Fred found the prostate surgery he had has made a big difference to his sleep because he now gets up a lot less frequently in the night than he used t

Fred often finds it difficult to get to sleep. He also finds that if he wakes up in the night he finds it takes a long time to get back to sleep. Sometimes he comes downstairs and has a cigarette in the back garden before trying to go back up and get to sleep. Fred noticed his sleep changed after he retired and feels this may be because he isn’t quite as active.