New research by SunLife has discovered that more than two in five adults over the age of 50 cannot sleep at night because they are worrying about money, with the rising cost of living dominating the list of reasons for their restless minds.
The over-50s finance specialists surveyed 1,000 people of various ages across the UK about their sleep habits to find out what’s keeping people up at night. Over a third (37%) of people aged 50 and over revealed they feel sleep deprived.
Money worries are the number one cause of sleep loss for the age bracket, closely followed by relationship issues and work. The top three reasons in the overall list were dominated by cost of living issues and included energy bills (52%), food prices (37%) and having low disposable incomes (31%).
