Study Reveals For Restful Sleep in Aged, Ambient Temperature Should Be 20-25 Degrees Celsius - News18
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Sleep quality in older adults could, thus, potentially be enhanced by optimising home thermal environments. (Image: Shutterstock) The researchers thus monitored sleep duration, efficiency, and restlessness over an extended period within participants’ homes Ambient night-time temperature for older adults to have a restful sleep should be between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius, according to newly published research. Further, sleep efficiency in older adults, aged 65 years or above, was found to drop by 5-10 per cent as the ambient night-time bedroom temperature rose to 30 degrees Celsius, the study found, despite substantial differences among the individuals studied. A lowered sleep quality in the long term has been linked with cognitive decline and dementia in older adults, along with impacting their mood by making them irritable and less productive during the day. Sleep quality in older adults could, thus, potentially be enhanced by optimising home thermal environments. The stud