A Teton Research Report · UK edition
One million and one nights
What 1,000,000+ resident-nights of sleep data reveal about life in care homes, and how sleep visibility helps care teams work more proactively.
Trusted by UK care providers
1M+
Resident-nights
Tracked contactlessly across care homes and hospitals since early 2024.
+1h
More sleep after go-live
Residents sleep nearly an hour longer each night, and 8% more efficiently, than before Teton.
1.5×
Falls with irregular sleep
Residents whose sleep is irregular are 1.5 times more likely to fall.
What’s inside
Sleep is individual. Averages hide it.
Eight hours on average, four to eleven in practice
Residents sleep just under eight hours a day, but nights spread fairly evenly from about four hours to eleven. There is no typical night, which is why the sleep view is personalised per resident.
Where residents actually sleep
Chair sleeping is rarer than it feels: only 3% of resident-nights are spent mostly in a chair, though 9% of residents had at least one. Residents at US sites are 4 times more likely to sleep in a chair than those in Europe.
Home versus the hospital
The median hospital patient sleeps an hour less than a care home resident, 6h 48m against 8h 07m, while spending four hours longer in bed. Sleep efficiency falls from 70% to 44%.
Based on production data from Teton-monitored care communities and hospitals, drawn from more than a million resident-nights tracked contactlessly since early 2024. Teton’s system is not a medical device and does not diagnose or direct clinical response. It supports, and does not replace, qualified care staff.