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Full Description
Maintaining good sleep is a crucial yet often underrated pillar of a person's wellbeing and general health. Despite this, there is limited guidance on how and why the various phases women experience in their lifetime may impact their quality of sleep, and what can be done to improve it.
This practical and accessible guide for health professionals introduces the concept of female sleep health across the lifetime, including key stages such as menstruation, fertility, working life, birth, perimenopause, and menopause. It also addresses sleep disorders, pain, and the impact poor sleep may have on mental health.
Readers will benefit from practical and detailed strategies on improving sleep, guidance on sleep aides and technology, and signposts to when clinical intervention is needed.
Contents
Glossary of terms
Chapter 1. What's it all about then?
An introduction to the concept of female sleep health and
why I was motivated to write this book.
Chapter 2. The what, why and how of sleep
A straightforward scientific description of what sleep is
and how it is regulated. Also includes information about
scientific tools to measure and analyse sleep.
Chapter 3. Sleep and age
An outline of how sleep needs change over the course of a lifetime
Chapter 4. Female sleep specifics: puberty and the menstrual cycle
and sleep
Sleep issues relating to these aspects of a woman's life.
Chapter 5. Female sleep specifics: fertility, pregnancy and sleep
Sleep issues relating to these aspects of a woman's life.
Chapter 6. Female sleep specifics: perimenopause, menopause
and sleep
Sleep issues relating to these aspects of a woman's life.
Chapter 7. Female sleep specifics: sleep disorders, pain and
mental health
Sleep issues relating to these aspects of a woman's life.
Chapter 8. Female sleep specifics: shift work and carer
responsibilities
Sleep issues relating to these aspects of a woman's life.
Chapter 9. Strategies for good sleep health
How to consider a strategy for good sleep and
some practical solutions
Chapter 10. Comments on contemporary sleep and closing remarks
A consideration of sleep across the generations, sleep in society and future
directions for practitioner training.
Signposting
References
