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Canada
Separate bedrooms for snoring boomer couples

Mis en ligne le 04/04/2007

Canadian builders and architects predicted that, in less than 10 years, more than 60 per cent of custom-built homes would have dual master bedrooms. Snoring is one of the main reasons of the new trend among boomers and seniors. 60% of Canadian adults snore and 50% of the British adults think it affects their sexual life.

The most-read story in America's most-read newspaper was a lifestyles piece that identified a disturbing trend in conjugal relations. Separate bedrooms. Guy Hobman is the president of Greentree Homes. He was at the National Association of Home Builders convention in Orlando, Fla., last month where the news was announced. It came from a survey of builders and architects who predicted that, in less than 10 years, more than 60 per cent of custom-built homes would have dual master bedrooms.
The idea is that separate bedrooms allow for a better night's sleep, especially for aging couples. The need for separate bedrooms, the New York Times suggested, is usually about children crying, or one spouse not wanting to interrupt the other when he gets up early and heads for a workout, or stays up late sending e-mails. But more likely it's about that most embarrassing of bedtime disorders: snoring.
Dr. Eleni Giannouli, physician, estimates 60 per cent of the general population snores. But she doesn't have any Canadian statistics on how many couples sleep in separate beds because of snoring and other sleep-related disorders.
Recent surveys in the United States and Britain, however, suggest the number of spouses who seek shelter in different beds -- sometimes on different floors -- is as high as one in four. Not surprisingly, a British sleep survey, released just this month, found that half of the 2,000 adults polled said snoring affected their sex lives.
Dr. Giannouli says only about four per cent of men over 45, and two per cent of women, have the most serious form known as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

(Winnipeg Free Press, "How do you SLEEP at night ? If you've been married for awhile, chances are you sleep alone", 03/17/07)

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