People who have a healthy sleeping pattern in middle age tend to keep working for longer, a study suggests.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, sleeping for lengthy periods of nine hours or more, or being disturbed regularly, were linked to leaving the workforce up to nine months earlier.<\/p>\n
To explore if good quality sleep may lead to longer careers, researchers in Finland looked at data from people aged 50 up to the age of 68.<\/p>\n
They analysed two studies, one which included more than 70,000 public sector staff from 2000 to 2016, and another of 6,071 working age adults in Finland from 1998 to 2013.<\/p>\n
Data on sleep was collected after people turned 50, and was categorised as either short (under seven hours), mid-range (seven to eight and a half hours), and long (nine or more hours).<\/p>\n
Disturbances included problems falling or staying asleep and waking too early.<\/p>\n
People who reported no disturbances had a working life expectancy of 13 years, five months.<\/p>\n
This was compared with 13 years among those moderately disturbed two to four nights a week, and 12 years, 10 months among people whose sleep was disturbed almost every night.<\/p>\n
The longest working life expectancy \u2014 almost 14 years \u2014 was among professional women who reported no sleep disturbances.<\/p>\n
The shortest \u2014 almost 12.5 years \u2014 was among men with severe sleep disturbances.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, public sector workers who slept from under seven to eight and a half hours had a working life expectancy of 13 years, two months, while those who slept for more than nine hours were expected to work 12 years, five months.<\/p>\n
Researchers also found a difference in working life expectancy between professional workers with higher levels of education and those in routine jobs with lower levels of education.<\/p>\n
Among 50-year-old public sector workers, the longest life expectancy was around 13 years, seven months among men and women in professional roles and short sleep lengths.<\/p>\n
The shortest was six years, five months, among men in routine jobs with low levels of education who slept for more than nine hours a night.<\/p>\n
Researchers said the findings, published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, suggest healthy sleep may help people keep working as they age.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo promote older adults\u2019 participation in working life, supporting sleep of recommended length and good quality may be required,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who have a healthy sleeping pattern in middle age tend to keep working for longer, a study…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[18,135,19,17,543],"class_list":["post-644431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sleep"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117119118833333415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}