For adults age 65 and above, sleep tends to worsen when indoor temperatures rises from 77 to 86 degrees, a study says.
, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Marcus Institute for Aging Research, and the study’s lead author. “If we had to suggest an optimal range based on our findings, something that I’m generally hesitant to do, it should be 70 to 74.”
The findings, published recently in the journal Science of the Total Environment, underscore the conclusions of sleep and climate experts that hot nights disrupt sleep and can lead to harmful health consequences.The study was conducted in the Boston area between October 2021 and April 2023 and tracked 50 participants, 65 and over, each for a 12-month period.
“We selected older adults because they typically experience poor sleep more than younger populations, their physiology is more sensitive to temperature changes, and they suffer the most in heat waves,” he said.
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