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Article: Prevalence, risk factors and strategies to prevent dehydration in older adults.(Clinical report)
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- Contemporary Nurse
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
Maintaining the delicate fluid and electrolyte equilibrium of older adults (>65 years of age) is an integral part of nursing care. Deficits in fluid volumes are common, manifest rapidly and can have potentially fatal consequences particularly for the older adult with numerous comorbidities and dampened, labile homeostatic mechanisms. Dehydration is the result of a fluid imbalance therefore an inadequate circulating volume resulting from either the consumption of too little fluid or due to a loss of too much fluid (Metheny 2000; Mentes 2006) The degree of dehydration is correlated with the percentage of Total Body Water (TBW) lost and correlated with particular ...
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