NIGHTTIME AMBIENT TEMPERATURE AND SLEEP IN OLDER ADULTS
Amir Baniassadi, Wanting Yu, Thomas Travison, Lewis Lipsitz, Brad Manor · 2024
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Amir Baniassadi, Wanting Yu, Thomas Travison, Lewis Lipsitz, and Brad Manor ask how warm a bedroom should be for an older person to sleep well, not in a lab but at home. Fifty Boston adults, averaging seventy-nine years old, were followed for eighteen months. Wearable monitors tracked sleep while sensors recorded bedroom temperature and humidity.
Sleep efficiency, the share of time in bed spent asleep, peaked when the air sat between twenty and twenty-four degrees Celsius. Pushing the temperature five degrees above that range cost five to ten percent of efficiency. The links were mostly curved, not straight. Individuals differed in their sweet spots. The authors note the stakes: many older adults sleep poorly without a known cause, and warming nights under climate change could erode sleep, especially for those who cannot afford cooling. Their practical advice: tailor bedroom temperature to the person.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Amir Baniassadi, Wanting Yu, Thomas Travison, Lewis Lipsitz, Brad Manor |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |