4 Tips to Help Your Loved One Sleep Better According to Her Body’s Natural Rhythms
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Is your loved one feeling tired all the time? She could be fighting her body’s natural sleep rhythms or doing battle with insomnia. Sleep is when your loved one is able to refresh her body and her 
brain, so it’s important to make it as beneficial as possible. These tips can help.
Set up a Routine
Routines are really important when it comes to helping your loved one get enough sleep. Help her to try to get to bed and wake up at the same time every day. Her body will adjust to that schedule and it’ll be easier to stick to a set bedtime and wakeup time. Once she becomes more used to the schedule, she’ll start to get enough sleep naturally.
Sleeping in Doesn’t Work
Sleeping in always feels like an easy way to catch up on sleep your loved one has lost, but it just doesn’t work that way. By sleeping in, your loved one undoes all the work that she did by setting up a solid sleep schedule. The result is the same type of feeling as jet lag, and leaves your loved one feeling groggy and out of sorts without really helping her to catch up on any sleep.
Nap Smart
Napping is one way that your loved one can catch up a little bit on sleep, but it has to be handled right. If your loved one already deals with insomnia, naps may not be all that helpful. Try to keep naps to 20 minutes or so, that way your loved one gets a little bit of rest without having a big block of sleep in the middle of the day. If naps don’t work for your loved one, she shouldn’t try to force them.
Fighting After-dinner Sleepiness
A common problem for people of all ages is a pattern of drowsiness right after dinner. Your loved one has eaten, so she now likely feels full and a little sleepy, especially if she doesn’t sleep well at night. One way to beat this time period of potential sleep is to get up and do something. This could be as simple as getting ready for the next day by laying out clothes or taking the dog out for the night. Doing something right when that sleepy feeling hits can help to hold it off until bedtime.
Ask your loved one’s home care providers what else they can recommend for your loved one’s specific sleep situation.