Elderly men and women have differing perceptions of how they sleep, say researchers. Women who feel they don’t sleep all that well actually do have a better quality of sleep than they think, and men sleep worse.
Researchers in the Netherlands studied 956 men and women who were between 59 and 79 years old. For six nights in a row, the subjects wore a watch-like device called an actigraph. The actigraph measured various sleep parameters while a diary that they subjects kept recorded how...
