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.
According to the American Sleep Disorders Association, the average teenager needs around 9.5 hours of sleep per night, possibly because hormones that are critical to growth and sexual maturation are released mostly during slumber. Yet studies show that teenagers generally get an average of only 7.4 hours a night.