Private Duty Care. Visiting Angels is a franchised private duty home care agency that specializes in providing caring home aides and other services in a client's home or residence.
1 Infants (3-11 months) need 14-15 hours. 2  Toddlers (12-35 months) need 12-14 hours. 3  Preschoolers (3-6 years) need 11-13 hours. 4  School age (6-10 years) need 10-11 hours. 5  Adolescents (11-18 years) need 9.25 hours. 6  Adults need an average of 8 hours.  Elderly adults may need less sleep.
It can even help you to eat better and manage the stress of being a teen. Biological sleep patterns shift toward later times for both sleeping and waking during adolescence -- meaning it is natural to not be able to fall asleep before 11:00 pm. Teens need about 8 to 10 hours of sleep each night to function best. Most teens do not get enough sleep â one study found that only 15% reported sleeping 8 1/2 hours on school nights. Teens tend to have irregular sleep patterns across the week â they typically stay up late and sleep in late on the weekends, which can affect their biological clocks and hurt the quality of their sleep.