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Earlier times of poor sleep and their impact on sleep now

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• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 65-74 >> John - Interview 15 >> John noticed a change in his sleep pattern at the time of his heart surgery 15 years ago, and this has continued.

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 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.

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