As a person ages, he feels less thirsty, so a special effort should be made to provide enough fluids. A person's fluid balance can be affected by medication, emotional stress, exercise, nourishment, general health, and the weather. Dehydration, especially in the elderly, can increase confusion and muscle weakness and cause nausea. Nausea, in turn, will prevent the person from wanting to eat, thereby causing more dehydration.
Preventive measures include:
- encouraging 6-8 cups of liquid every day (or an amount determined by the doctor)
- serving beverages at room temperature
- providing foods high in liquid (for example, watermelon)
- avoiding caffeine, which causes frequent urination and dehydration
Thank you cause she will not drink water excpt to take her pills, no mater what I say or do. She is very very stuborn
I wanted to know how to get someone with alzhemiers can get more fluids in their body.....watermelon and sometimes a make a warm very watered down lemonade and hot decf.green tea
a good reminder to provide water.
Trying foods high in liquid may help my mom; she loves cantaloupe, but it's almost impossible to get her to drink more than a glass or two of water! She says ,"I've never been much of a water drinker." I show her the tenting skin on her hand, but it doesn't stay with her,
I am 76 & normaly have vains showing on my hands & there gone, I thought I mite be dehydrated
Dietary restictions can be enforced by good councelling.There should be grandual withdrawal of a particular diet.
i think this article can relate to everyone. With the heat, people forget that they need to hydrate themselves. Instead they concentrate on finding places with air conditioning. Great tips!
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