Virtually half of individuals of their fifties are experiencing sleeping difficulties, a survey has discovered.
The research confirmed that 46 per cent of individuals aged 50 to 59 reported that they haven’t been sleeping properly over the past 12 months, whereas 42 per cent mentioned they had been extra anxious over the identical timeframe.
Researchers at Kantar Analysis Categorical, commissioned by charity Age UK, spoke to 2,621 individuals over the age of fifty and in addition uncovered a looming disaster in older individuals’s psychological well being.
As many as one in eight individuals aged 50 and over mentioned they not often or by no means had social contact with others in particular person, over the telephone or on-line.
Different findings included over a 3rd of fifty to 59-year-olds reported discovering it more durable to recollect issues, whereas 1 / 4 (26 per cent) mentioned they had been discovering it more durable to course of new info.
The research confirmed that 46 per cent of individuals aged 50 to 59 reported that they haven’t been sleeping properly over the past 12 months (Inventory Picture)
Virtually half (48 per cent) of unpaid carers aged 50 or over mentioned that they had felt anxious previously 12 months, with greater than a 3rd (34 per cent) reporting they felt overwhelmed and over a fifth (21 per cent) felt lonely as a result of care or help they had been liable for.
Caroline Abrahams, Age UK director, mentioned the findings demonstrated the hole between the supply of psychological well being help and demand for assist.
She mentioned: ‘It is sobering to see how widespread psychological ill-health and an absence of wellbeing is amongst our older inhabitants.
‘Our analysis is a reminder of the massive hole that exists in the mean time between the necessity for psychological well being help of every kind, together with speaking therapies, and its availability.
‘The truth that our analysis discovered that folks of their fifties are sometimes combating their psychological well being too might be a shock to many I believe, and it is an essential get up name for the NHS and our society.
‘Throughout the UK there are some eight million individuals aged 50-something, however their wants are usually neglected.
‘It’s typically merely assumed that they’re universally blissful, hale and hearty, however our analysis paints a quite totally different image.’
The findings come after a report final week by the Centre for Psychological Well being discovered older individuals had been being left behind by insufficient psychological well being providers, ageism, and the absence of a nationwide technique.
Anxieties will not be restricted to bodily or psychological well being circumstances, both.
Final month older individuals’s monetary hardship charity Impartial Age printed figures which confirmed 41 per cent of individuals aged 50 or over and never absolutely retired had been involved about financial hardship of their retirement.
The analysis additionally confirmed practically a fifth (18 per cent) of individuals between 60-64 approaching retirement had been dwelling in deep poverty.
