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• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 65-74 >> Mike - Interview 12 >> Mike often lies awake worrying in the night, but in the morning realises his problems aren’t that serious.

Mike works part-time as a test centre administrator. He has noticed a change in his sleep as he has got older, noticeably that he has periods of deeper sleep, but he doesn’t believe he sleeps any longer than he used to. Mike noticed his sleep changed when he first had children, and finds that pattern has continued.

• Later life >> Sleep problems in later life >> Men aged 75+ >> Robert - Interview 06 >> Robert, who has recently been bereaved, finds that thinking about interesting problems, such as how to build a boat trailer, helps him get to sleep.

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.