Hours Of Sleep Needed For Someone 70+

Anyone should sleep at least 6-7hrs to be healthy. Age is not factor I guess. My dad who is about to be 70 has good sleeping cycle. Touchwood. Your father has medical or psychological issue which needs to be treated. Don't find answers in google, you might end up wasting your time and getting even more confused.
There are some Delta music for insomania available in YouTube which needs to be played when he goes to sleep, it runs for hours, so put phone on charging in his room. Hope it works at least for few hours for your dad.

 

Irrespective of age, There is no universal or empirical formula for finding out sleeping duration required.
2. whereas it greatly depends on so many factors including individual's psyche, domestic peace, activities in wakeful hours, type and time of food and beverage one takes during the day and before retiring to bed, bladder strength etc., exercises yoga included, viewing TV in later part of the day ( market conditions in cases where person dabbles in stock market), frequency one changes the bedcover and pillow covers and blanket, type of hair oil etc.,
3. In Rem sleep - just couple of hours of sleep is enough to keep body going for next twenty four hours.
4. Sherpas over seventy happily climbs mountains without sleep;
5. vegetarian liquid food before 3 hours to bed, a glass of warm milk with pinch of turmeric and candy an hour before going to bed or and warm bath, chanting greatly helps one to induce sleep. listening to very light keerthanas in certain ragas ( neelambari and reethigowlai in Carnatic music) also seemed to be doing wonders for curing insomnia.
Regards.
Happy New Year.

 

as a post scrip,t I wish to add that in simple terms if circadian rhythm i.e. internal clock in the body is disturbed, the sleep pattern changes for good or bad. Uncle or brother google can be searched for more information - search words < circadian rhythm >. one has to closely observe past 24 hour activities of the individual to determine what exactly affects circadian rhythm.

 

as a post scrip,t I wish to add that in simple terms if circadian rhythm i.e. internal clock in the body is disturbed, the sleep pattern changes for good or bad. Uncle or brother google can be searched for more information - search words < circadian rhythm >. one has to closely observe past 24 hour activities of the individual to determine what exactly affects circadian rhythm.

 

Talk to your doc about melatonin, it’s even given to pediatric patients .

 

If there is a Sleep Lab in your city, get your father checked. They will monitor his sleeping patterns and also find out if he has Sleep Apnea issues.