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Posted on Mar 03, 2015, 6 a.m.
National Sleep Foundation issues age-specific recommended sleep durations.
Convening an 18-member multidisciplinary expert panel to evaluate scientific literature assessing sleep duration, the National Sleep Foundation issues recommended sleep durations stratified by age group. For adults (ages 26 to 64 years), sleep duration remains at a recommended 7 to 9 hours. The panel established a new age category, of older adults (ages 65 years and older) for which the recommended sleep range is 7 to 8 hours. Observing that: “Sufficient sleep duration requirements vary across the lifespan and from person to person,” the panel explains that: “The recommendations reported here represent guidelines for healthy individuals and those not suffering from a sleep disorder.”
Max Hirshkowitz, Kaitlyn Whiton, Steven M. Albert, Cathy Alessi, Oliviero Bruni, Lydia DonCarlos, J. Catesby Ware, et al. “National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary.” Sleep Health: The Official Journal of the National Sleep Foundation, 14 Jan. 2015.
