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.
Now, your body tells you to go to sleep around 10:00 or 11:00 pm. The natural shift in a teen's circadian rhythms is called sleep phase delay.. The need to sleep is delayed for about two hours. At first, teens may appear to be suffering from insomnia. They will have a hard time falling asleep at the usual time. While they begin going to sleep later, they still need an average of nine hours of sleep at night.