Characteristics And Restrictions Of Valued Activities Participation Among Community Dwelling Older Adults

What do people think of when they first hear the word nap? Everyday sayings such as snatching a nap, being caught napping, snoozing, or stealing forty winks are all beneficial daily activities we need to add to our busy life. If we do, we will be more awake and capable to reach our full potential as an individual. People don’t realize how important a nap can be. Although popular beliefs suggest that naps are a waste of time, naps actually increase productivity by resting the brain.

Morgan Manella in the article “Study: A Third of U.S. Adults Don’t Get Enough Sleep” argues that sleep deprivation can have a negative effect in someone’s health. Manella supports her argument by presenting statistics that shows how adults that don’t enough sleep have chronic conditions. The author’s purpose is to raise awareness so that people will sleep more often and have a better health condition.

According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleeping makes up one third of a person’s lifetime. Despite that fact, people do not get nearly enough sleep to be productive.

PSQI, a 19-item tool, assessed self-rated sleep quality measures over the prior month, and with a score of 5 or greater associated with poor sleep. ESS, an 8-item self-rated questionnaire, evaluated the impact of subjective perceived sleepiness on daily functioning in eight different environments with a score of 9 or greater being associated with a burden of day-time sleepiness. ISI, a 7-item tool, identified the presence, rated the severity and described the impact of insomnia with a score of 10 or greater identified as positive for

To begin with, sleep is so important that even naps can’t replace it. According to source 1, “However, napping doesn’t provide all of the other benefits of a night-time sleep.” This explains that if you’re feeling drowsy, a nap can provide a short-term boost in alertness and performance, but there are other categories that even a nap can’t fill up. However, taking a nap is still better than not resting at all. It’s because if you don’t have enough sleep, you are more likely to have an accident, injury, or illness. Undoubtedly, sleeping is so important that even naps can't replace it.

Sleep deprivation has become a wide spread issue in the United States. This spans from kids as young as 10 as far up as adults in their 40s and 50s. This causes these people to either be not at the top of their game, which can hinder their performance, and it can also make them start to get addicted to caffeinated beverages such as coffee and energy drinks. This issue could be solved with one thing, napping.

The health consequences of lack of sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness affect 50 to 70 million Americans annually. Sleep deprivation costs the United States 15 billion dollars annually in health care. In addition, industry spend $50 billion dollars in lost productivity (NIH, 2004).

This study hypothesized that napping type (planned versus unintentional) would be a primary predictor of scores on cognitive assessments and self-rated memory. A secondary hypothesis of this study was that cognitive assessments would be significantly associated with napping frequency as well as napping type. These hypotheses were partially supported by the study findings. Planned napping was associated with higher scores on memory assessments, while frequent napping was independently associated with lower scores on one memory assessment. However, these results only partially remained after adjustment for highest level of educational attainment: while planned napping was still associated with higher scores on one memory assessment, napping

In my teenage years, sleep began to become a big part of my life again. Well, rather it became a notion rather than a practice. Ever since a legal age I've worked at a restaurant to earn a small living to pay for certain commodities, like a revered cup of coffee. Yet, not even a caffeine boost could prevent me from being dragged down into the chasm of insomnia caused from work and school. I would never day dream about being able to read minds or having a pitfall of a vast bank account; no I always fantasized about having more time. Who

I do think naps are a terrible sleep habit and should practiced anymore, naps are bad for your health and your productivity. Although to be on the other side of the argument, scientist say that napping has been proven to boost mental focus although when i say naps i mean 20-30 minute naps. Naps lasting longer will result in grogginess and in turn making you less productive which is the main argument towards naps is that they help your productivity. Although many say that naps are an important lifestyle choice for busy Americans there are a lot of drawbacks some i have already listed and some i will bring up now. First, new research by Dr Tomohide Yamada states that napping everyday increases the risk of getting diabetes and this is why excessive daytime sleepiness and taking longer naps were associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes, with a short nap not increasing this risk. "Also Daytime napping might be a consequence of night-time sleep disturbance such as obstructive sleep apnoea. Epidemiological studies have shown that obstructive sleep apnoea is independently linked to blockages (ischaemia) of heart arteries, stroke, fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events, and all-cause mortality.(Dr Tomohide Yamada). So in conclusion supporters of naps and daytime naps are wrong in saying a "power nap" is good for you it raises the risk for diabetes and also kills productivity as you wake up groggy and tired then you were before, also it can damage you body clock and make it difficult to sleep at

Today's nation in the United states is very sleep-deprived. Many researchers argue naps throughout the day could solve this issue, but i disagree because humans are naturally monophasic, meaning they only sleep for a single period of time within twenty-four hours. Only when something interupts their nighttime sleep cycle will they nap during the day.

Naptime should be integrated into the school day of high schoolers. A chief supporting reason for this is that adolescents do not receive the nine and one-quarter hours of sleep they require nightly. With a lethal combination of homework, clubs, sports, volunteer work, and other activities, high schoolers do not get enough sleep. Frequently not getting enough sleep to function, their performance in school and sports is often inhibited. Some of these sleep deprived students even report falling asleep in class, further disrupting their school day. That is why naptime should become a part of the regular school day. Another reason is, even a short, 26-minute nap increases attentiveness by 54%. A quick nap could have a huge impact on a student’s

Naps have held many stigmas over the years and are often seen as very unprofessional in the traditional workplace. Many say it leads to a halt in one’s personal output. Managers, foreman, and workers suffer from the notion that napping is an indicator of lack of ambition and low professional ethics (Muzet et al). These attitudes further reassert the notion that naps are being seen as a distraction from work that needs to be accomplished. If discussed at all, “sleep is more often than not regarded as a necessary evil by many moralists and capitalists, who warn that wasted hours are wasted money, too much sleep parboils the flesh, and sleep is a felon that steals precious time” (Baxter). Most companies have frowned upon the idea of employees taking the company’s time to sleep on the job, but the concept of napping is adapting from one’s personal pastime to a new and innovative business model. In addition to the regular every day workplace, businesses are

This is not just one and a half hour less than our previous generation but also an erosion from the ‘ideal’ eight hours of sleep. It is the objective of the capitalist to make time as productive as possible, work time is now being further divided into hours, minutes or even seconds. Sleep, is no exception. Our sleeping time is shortened and sleep has become a consumer ’good’ in this capitalist society. ‘’Sleep, has been commercialised and commodified in consumer culture (Willaim, 2001), in the sense that it ‘enhances’ productivity. Different ways of ‘doing’ sleep was then ‘introduced’. In my diary on Sleeping Routine (2016) and diary on Time, Schedule and Routines (2016), I have mentioned ’’power nap’’ and ‘’having a good sleep also means getting benefits from the ‘beauty sleep’. Sleep is now being portrayed to be the ‘’cheapest form of stress relief’’, napping specifically is seen as an efficient sleep management tactics with added health benefits. Sleep is being represented as and re-constructed into a ‘tool’ in the capitalist society. Sleeping routines have changed according to the culture of workplace and the transforming of society. ‘’A revaluation of ’napping’ in the workplace is recently underway (Williams, 2001).’’ Napping is now considered to be the ‘smartest’ and ‘cheapest’ way of stress relief for living in 24/7 society. More companies have introduced ’napping’ time for

Young people have about sleep is misinterpreted (Burton et al.), to what real sleep patterns look like. e.g. the expectation; only good sleep, is in deep sleep. Creating an idealistic expectancy - value, and will decrease the ability to attain sleep, therefore sleep deprivation will occur. Arousal reduces as the capability to make the desired outcome is not being established. The goal – desire outcome would suggest that setting the alarm too early will create less sleep. Intrinsic motivation will be the lost interest in sleep as it is no longer enjoyable and interesting and the implicit motives would be not yawing when sleepy. A sleep deprivation study will consist of the research method; experimentation, independent variable; a variety of participants, dependent variable; non – motivated sleep behaviour. Hypotheses; do participants expectations about sleep interfere with the natural sleep