Older Adults Report Greater Satisfaction from Sleep

Here's some good news for us on the weekend that we're set to lose an hour. Researchers have found that a person's quality of sleep, or at least their perception of it, improves with age.

The researchers were originally trying to confirm the belief that difficulty sleeping increases with age. Instead, after randomized telephone surveys with 155,877 adults, they discovered that the opposite was actually true.

Even if sleep among older Americans is actually worse (in terms of sleep disturbances and residual tiredness) than younger adults, the older people actually feel better about the sleep they are getting.

To read the study's abstract, click here.