Older people Quote by Penelope A. Lewis

“Strangely, younger people seem to suffer more in this situation than older people, not because they get less sleep but because they don't deal…

— Penelope A. Lewis

It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it.

— Matthew Walker

“new report has discovered that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death among Americans after heart attacks and cancer. Sleeplessness undoubtedly plays a…

— Matthew Walker

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life. The leading causes of disease and death in developed nations—diseases that are crippling health-care systems, such…

— Matthew Walker

Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems.

— Matthew Walker

The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think…

— Matthew Walker

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow…

— Matthew Walker

“Modern science shows that some of the mentally incompetent people would become more incompetent if you deprive them of sleep. How does it affect…

— Boris Zubry

“The most tragic error into which older people can fall is one that is common among educators and politicians. It is to use youth…

— Shirley Chisholm

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden…

— Alvin R. Dyer