Fully 59% of nursing home residents with symptomatic COVID-19 experienced clinically significant dehydration, according to a new study in a New York City facility. Nursing homes may be the best care ...

Feedback from clinicians and managers identified numerous barriers to providing care for dehydration among nursing home residents including limited training, absence of specific protocols and ...

A free online learning unit launched today aims to educate nursing staff in preventing avoidable harm from dehydration. Nursing Times Learning has developed an online learning unit on preventing ...

Dehydration is common in older people, leading to longer hospital stays and increased disability and mortality. Health professionals can diagnose water-loss dehydration by taking a blood sample and ...

Today, at least 50% of nursing home patients are at risk of dehydration. Many are struggling to hydrate enough orally by drinking water which could lead to comorbidities and a risk of early death. But ...

Residents at the troubled Wisconsin veterans home in Union Grove are not getting enough water, resulting in dehydration and patients being sent to the hospital, according to an internal email obtained ...

Hypertonic dehydration occurs when there’s an imbalance of water and salt in your body. Losing too much water while keeping too much salt in the fluid outside your cells causes hypertonic dehydration.

Dehydration is dangerous no matter what your age, but seniors are at a greater risk for dehydration than other age groups. Dehydration can happen quicker than you think and can cause damage before you ...