The myth that older adults need less sleep because they don't need stronger bones is not true. Older adults still need just as much sleep as midlife adults. Their sleep duration declines not because they need less sleep, but because they don't have the brain apparatus to generate the sleep that they still necessarily need. The biggest difference in aging is a decline in deep non-rem sleep or slow wave sleep.

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