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| Day-time sleep and active ageing in later life | | Author(s) | Susan Venn, Sara Arber |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 31, part 2, February 2011 |
| Pages | pp 197-216 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Sleep behaviour ; Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Well being ; Attitude. |
| Annotation | The concept of `active ageing' has received much attention through strategic policy frameworks and government and non-governmental initiatives. The primary goal of these initiatives is to encourage older people to be active and productive, and to enhance quality of life, health and well-being. It is well known that with increasing age, night-time sleep deteriorates, which has implications for how older people maintain activity levels. This in turn leads to an increased propensity for daytime sleep. Using data from 62 interviews with people aged 65_95 years living in their own homes who reported poor sleep, this paper explores the meanings of daytime sleep, and how the attitudes and practices of 'active ageing' are intricately linked to the management of daytime sleep and bodily changes that arise from the ageing process. The desire to be active in later life led to primarily dichotomous attitudes to daytime sleep; older people either chose to accept sleeping in the day, or resisted it. Those who accepted day-time sleep did so because of recognition of decreasing energy in later life, and an acknowledgement that napping is beneficial in helping to maintain active lives. Those who resisted daytime sleep did so because time spent napping was regarded as being both unproductive and as a negative marker of the ageing process. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110421002 A |
| Classmark | CG: BG: CC: F:59: D:F:5HH: DP |
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