Reasons Why Seniors Don’t Sleep Well at Night | Senior Sleep Problems
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- čas přidán 30. 08. 2022
- Seniors experience occasional sleepless nights; however, it can become a problem when it's happening more frequently and causing negative consequences. A seniors trouble sleeping can be a common issue. Senior sleep problems occur when they can't fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up too early and can't get back to sleep. Learn more about Caring Senior Service and how to help seniors remain healthy, happy, and at home.
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Everyone says reach out to a healthcare professional but they have no clue either. You’re on your own.
One of the first reasons listed was being prescribed 4 or more drugs. A number of years ago some organization indicated that doctors shouldn't be prescribing 10+ prescriptions. I would bet nothing has changed.
They always say to go to a healthcare professional or reach out but the fact is all they want is the money from your insurance and they really do not care about you and that is a really painful fact very few doctors really care
@@damianlopez7630truer words were never spoken
Yep.
100% true!! Our Drs and pass could care less.Its 100+ degrees here in summer..nights are he'll and I CANT afford AC very much.....Hmmm 🤔🤔 wonder why I CANT sleep!!!
My recliner is where I sleep when the bed isn't conducive to good sleep. The recliner has magic properties that never fail when I wake up at 2am. I just go to the man cave, plop down in my recliner, sleep the rest of the night😊
My husband gave up on the bed and slept in the recliner for a couple of years. Just couldn’t get comfy in the bed. Then, suddenly the chair became uncomfortable, so back to the bed.
It helps a lot if you have acid reflux!
@@Katsem😅
Reach out to a health professional? Very humorous.
Humorous for sure.. I'm 73, and had a bout of nearly all night insomnia that lasted nearly a week. I got my primary care doctor to give me a referral to a sleep doctor. Turns out what I got referred to was a psychiatrist, and all he did was proscribe trazodone, which made me sleep, but gave me the most horrible dreams. He switched me over to Seroquel, which, along with an otc melatonin seems to work ok.
@@johnbatch9276 the Vodka advice is one of the worst advice you can give I'm an alcoholic and right now I'm going through a terrible hangover... and no...it doesn't help you sleep... alcohol actually causes you to fall asleep and wake up faster because it gives you a tremendously poor quality of sleep.
@@lvsluggo007 CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
I'm 73. There isn't a comment here I couldn't have made. And It don't seem to be getting better. I don't sleep more than four hours at a time. Mostly not that long. 24 hours without sleep is common. But here I found out that all is normal and that's what important. Sleep is sleep. All at once or catnaps that add up. Sleep when you can, and don't worry about it. At all. Can't sleep, get out of bed, get dressed and depending on the time of day and energy level, go find something to do.none of this sitting around reading, at our age we are smart enough. Day light hours weather permits, play in the garden . Indoors hobby crafts, model cars, etc. The one place this plays hell is how it affects your social life. It's hard to be social when you at nodding off. And at the same time no one wants to do anything at night, and because of light blindness your stuck because you can't drive. Lots and lots of fun.
An added thought. I wonder if they had all night movie theaters if we wouldn't sleep better.
Thank u for sharing
CURE, See my comment.
What a relieve to actually see a clip about this subject that doesn't last 30+ minutes and is packed with ads.
Thank youj!!!
I sleep great during the day! I get my days and nights flipped around all the time. If I get them flipped back right and stay active during the day I sleep at night.
We can't sleep at night because all of crap we've been through is rattling around in our brains. We know whats in this world and have seen some serious crap, that's why we can't sleep.
Yes totally agree 👍
Agreed!!!
pray, it helps more than ever!
I have a runaway brain; often at 2:45 am or so I can't just can't the brain to shut up and get back to sleep. This goes til 4am and sleep finally comes. Alarm goes at 7am, so I have to nap.
@@frankmenchaca9993 I know where your coming from Frank bloody medication is keeping us alive for what ha 😉
Some other possible reasons for poor sleep: mental health issues such as anxiety; digestion issues such as heartburn; too much late night screen time.
It's normally one thing or the other, that keeps you awake 😅.
Thanks for sharing Simon and Beth ❤❤❤
I find it amazing that you can sum up the difficulties about whether or not seniors are sleeping well and just a little over a minute and a half. WOW ‼️ its far more complicated than that. You didn’t even brush the surface hardly
Magnesium can be a great help, but it pays to do all the other things too, like morning walks getting a dose of daylight , good diet with lots of green vegetables, dont overi dulge on cakes and biscuits, keep in touch with the family, have a hobby you love. Having a balanced life.
Yes, we need balance in our lives. That is something I'm working on: Getting enough work in, including a little seeing other people, eating properly and fasting from too much media. I have benefitted by turning off the tv and fast from time on the Internet. I will be 80 this month. We never get through learning and re-learning.
Try not to think about this; it gets worse…🤦🏼
Sleep has become my most sought after, but difficult, condition in my my old age (77). I sometimes get as few as 4 hours of sleep in a night, and REM sleep is almost always lacking. Perhaps, as you say, poor sleep can be influenced by depression, but I in my case, I would say poor sleep brings about depression. I would try to get a sleep study done, but how would that work if I can’t sleep?
I believe you are right. " Poor sleep brings about depression." I truly believe that. I'm 73 not that far behind you. My wife told me a while back that I don't have a sleep problem, when I sleep I do just fine, but seldom more than four hours straight. My wife said I have a scheduling problem . Can't sleep at night ? I'm not punching a clock anymore, so I sleep during the day. If that what it takes, that's what it takes.ever sit around and find yourself getting groggy? That's your REM sleep knocking at the door. Grab it and the hell with everything else. Lack of sleep doesn't only affect your mental health, it affects your heart, and not for the good. There are some personal issues that may affect sleep. Digestion, bowel movement, gas. Two we don't think of. Blood pressure. My blood pressure is low, my wife's is about normal. When we go to bed our blood pressure will even out. Hers goes down and she falls asleep, mine rises and I wake up. I try to go to sleep before her ,and it helps. The last thing I'm going to comment on is the big personal. It has to do with our sex lives. I had a healthy sex life but, the key word is had. I know about it, I want it, but my body won't cooperate. We still have all those hormones and chemicals running around in side us and How they affect sleep I don't know, Im not Doctor , but their there doing something. Mostly you have to quit worrying about it. That can cause sleeplessness by it's self. I hope that at least I've given you food for thought. I have no faith in Doctors, so if we are going to solve this problem I think that the answers are here in this comment section among us. After all we don't loose a costumer if we solve a problem. Let me know how it goes and if I've given you food for thought. Anyone reading this, If you have Ideas break them out here. Can't hurt, and might help.
If you are a pensioner and have little obligations, stay in bed until you've had minimum of 8hours sound sleep.I'v been doing this and problematic neighbour's are insulting and harassing me everyday. 2 relatives, who don't care about my welfare jumped over the wall ,banging doors,claiming they thought I was dead?...showing criminals how to get into my home.
Dogsnark - Insomnia is one of the things checked out in a sleep study, along with other conditions.
CURE. See my comment.
If you want to do a sleep study, just ask for it, they get useful data even if you don't sleep. Try my cure first tho. Free. Tonight.
@@user-ho4nw5sf3wlong drawn out comment mate sent me to sleep 😴
I now use 10mg Melatonin, 20 mg Amitriptyline, a rice size piece of THC oil and 2 Magnesium BisGlycinate for sleep. It's the miracle combo for me. Head injury, concussions, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Emphysema and other health issues, one genetic. I used to sleep less than an hour...maybe 3 of those a night. Now, 7-8 uninterrupted hours. It took me years to get it right. I wish you all well, it's not an easy journey.
I'm 74 and get great sleep, not perfect, but good sleep. I attribute it to being active (been borderline hyper my whole life) making me physically tired at bedtime. Still, I do get up three or four times every night to pee. I get up quite early, but I do go to bed early so that's not a factor. I weigh the same as I did in high school; I'm not even close to being fat. I also use the generic version of those breathe right nasal strips each night which helps with snoring. One cup of coffee in the morning only, so no caffeine at night. Also, I don't eat a big dinner. If you have trouble sleeping, I'd start by being very actively during the day to make yourself tired. That, I believe, is the most important thing to good sleep.
Me too. I have nervous energy and I also am slender. Thank God, my weight is not a problem. I recently stopped watching too much Internet and movies and that helped. Media wants to control us, but we do not need to allow it. Bible study is good. I'll be 80 soon.
Such a vicious cycle that prevents a health sleep cycle from being obtained. This is great content, so many elements we hadn't thought about which could help our clients. Thank you!
CURE. See my comment.
Thanks. Short and directly to the point, unlike so many others who post on health issues - they mean well but go on and on and on.
Waking up to pee at 3.30am is what wakes me up.
I don't know why CZcams thought I needed to see this. I'm a senior now and I sleep fine. I also wake up around 7.00 a.m. after years of getting up to go to work at every early hour imaginable! 😂😂😂
I'm baffled by what their algorithm sends my way , , ,
Try and get Drs. Iam well over 80 had a few operation so left with problems had2 visits in 6 years even though housebound. Lord help us. We are a nuisance for living so long to NHS
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
When you know your time is running you 're just trying to make the best of the little time you have left, Death is never a comforting companion even for those who think there may be an afterlife.
Because our pineal glands aren’t working properly, along side other endocrine glands
Read Dr Michael Mosley's book Fast Asleep. Lots of good ideas. He trained as a Dr, but took up journalism and now writes books analysing various health problems.
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
Thanks so much for the information 🙏 from A.M.Ramagole
❤❤❤Thank you for sharing Amen
You are so welcome
I'm 68 and reconise most of these. Typing this at 02-20
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
Lack of physical activity can obviously cause less tiredness and affect sleep patterns. Also, a need to
pee during the night. Physical impairment can be a factor in reduced exercise and also create a degree
of discomfort bed. Getting the balance right is very much an individual matter - often trial and error - as I've
found, suffering a degree of physical impairment through injury, "aided and abetted" factors met in the ageing
process.
CURE see my comment
Great. Now I'll stay up worrying about this, too.
lol yep
Your body produces less melatonin as you age. Supplements can help. Magnesium deficiency. Magnesium Bisglycinate will help with sleep, anxiety and relation.
dr tell u so, but that is on paper
no need to sleep if u feel healthy
I started taking magnesium gummies a few weeks ago. It really helps. I sleep great now.
I take magnesium and K2D3 during the day to help my calcium absorption, but it doesn't do a thing for my sleep. I take melatonin before bed, and it works great. Helps me sleep and stay asleep, and I wake up feeling refreshed, and no groggy, hungover feeling like with sleep medications. I didn't realize your body produces less as you age. I'm 74, but my problem is staying up too late on a blue light screen... like right now. 🤦🏼♀️
@@srvntlilly Melatonin works pretty good for sleep but I only take it short term. Taking it too often may make your brain produce less melatonin.
@@dangunn6961 Oh yeah. No, I only take it when I'm still awake at three in the morning and my minds going a million miles an hour, lol. And even then, I usually only take half a dose.
Since my 70 I sleep only 4 hours. Although I have good disciplined life regard to food, sport, tai cji meditation daily, bed at 11pm, yet I had 3 mild strokes and 3 hemorrages. Lots of médication after strokes. Very stressful. Doctors don't care. They say its because you aged. Im just 76. I hardly bare to see professional health care. Sleepless nights sometimes.
Did you take the C19 jab? May not be related in your case but increase in strokes and heart conditions (plus multiple other conditions) have greatly multiplied and is associated with the rushed out experimental jab : (
What about PAIN???? I have back issues that keep me from sleeping well. PAIN, PAIN, PAIN.
You are what you eat. Your diet impacts your health.
Lower stress, reduce obesity and more exercise are key to a healthy life.
Obesity in children and adults is rising across the world.
Fast food and sugary drinks are contributing to the problem of poor health and obesity.
Eat a healthy plant based diet and exercise regularly.
Reduce or ELIMINATE cows milk, eggs, cheese and meat. Eat more salad greens, beans, fruit and vegetables. Eliminate fast food, snacks like cookies, cakes, chips, and sugary drinks and juices.
Every adult and child should own a bicycle and ride it regularly.
Regular exercise will help you sleep better. Yoga is a great stress reducer.
Obesity is all too common today. Get off the couch. Get off the phone, ipad or video game.
A variety of stretching and other exercises help with increased mobility.
Ride to work, ride to school, ride for fun.
Every city should be a bicycle city.
Speak up for bicycles in your community
I'm an Avid Bicycle Enthusiast and I love Your Idea. More Bicycles for sure.
It's ironic that sleeping should be harder than working out!
Have not been able to go to sleep before 4am for 4 years. Do not nap during day and do not consume caffeine.
Try napping and consuming caffeine then. And I’m not being sarcastic. I also don’t mean that literally. What I mean is, try something different. Doing the same things over and over expecting different results is clearly not working. It didn’t for me either. I didn’t nap, nor drink coffee and one day I decided I didn’t care about my rituals anymore and I had a cup of coffee at 2 pm. Slept fine. Was it the caffeine that made me sleep? No, of course not. But it didn’t make my insomnia worse either. ❤ Hope you have a good day.
a recipe for sleep from my g/grandma ... take one egg whisked, add half a mug of near boiling milk pour on top mix tog. add some dark chocolate if you like and drink before bed time with a bikkie ... sleep well!!
Just my opinion, but I find when I am more active I sleep better. I'm not talking about hard or vigorous exercise. Just a little more discipline than normal. I now wash my dishes by hand and mop my floors myself. Seems silly but even small changes count.
Thanks for sharing!
CURE see my comment
@@CaringSeniorServiceHQ CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
It's good, nothing silly here. I never had a dishwashing machine anyway.
Soon the big sleep, so why all the fuss?
Since I started drinking Tart Cherry juice ,I am sleeping much better
Last year I miraculously slept the entire night, not waking up once to pee; and no I didn't wet the bed lol.
CURE see my comment
I think part of it is not wearing your body out enough. I do sleep better and longer if I’ve been moving a lot all day.
I don't sleep good because I realized im a senior citizen!!!!! Ouch!!!
Ouch. Know what you mean. That's SEASONED citizen. There's a CURE see my comment
Japan people sleep only 4 hours and they are more active and healthy.
Because they are running out of time and do not want to waste any sleeping
Most doctors will just write a prescription, that's not what I want
lolathedog is right. You’re on your own.
hypnosis cds work decent i knew a guy who slep 1 hour a night and meditated 2 hours a day 1 hour of meditation = 4 hours of deep sleep
Hypnosis works wonderful for me! It's a switch that let's me go to sleep whenever I choose, even several times/night; doesn't keep me asleep just puts me to sleep.
See my CURE comment
@61 I take CBD oil and melatonin and I’m still up at 3am.
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
I have tried everything! I still lay awake at night. It’s so frustrating. Then I think well maybe I don’t need 8 hours of sleep. I don’t sleep more than a few hours, because I wake up to pee. It’s irritating.
CURE. See my comment
People with diabetes often have sleep
apnea.
"....encourage them to reach out to a health professional " so they can get more prescribed medication??
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
none of that, but only fear of old age and death
If you fear death you haven't suffered enough.
@@ANDROLOMAnormally I would call BS on that. But you’re right. Had my own experience with that. ❤
Rubbish I'm 71 and I don't take any pills for anything and I've always got up early since I was a kid it's nothing for me to get up at 5 or 6 in the morning and I always go to bed about 11 or 12 at night.
None of those are it.
Getting old sucks.
😀😁😂 What u want them to do? Stop the medication?
Eveything is fuckin worse ,i am 64 and rarely sleep
I sleep 1 hour a night 🌙
try hylands calms forte sleep aid its a homeopathic sleep aid it work wonders @@cheryl1909
Four hrs a day is about my average, I know how you feel.
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
@@cheryl1909 CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
I sleep like a log, all due to my CPAP machine
they will sleep well when have young wife
make them more happy and more sleep
no need Melatonin or sleeping pills
hilarious.....
Having a younger husband would work wonders. Would sleep well and be happy. Younger spouse works both ways. 👍😇
Another advertisement the medical industry
They be asleep permanently soon enough
The big sleep 😅
Thanks, Pal!
good......but I like the young wife one better
Same as you,one day!
Sad to think that way. But true
This ad, which said nothing new, for Caring Senior Service ,offered no information/help except by calling them. Thanks for the ad, but not really.
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
homeopathic sleep aids
I have trouble falling asleep, and then staying asleep. I've been considering getting some legal cannabis in gummie or edible form.
CURE see my comment. I had sleep problems. No more.
I take it every night and sleep like a baby