The Northumbria Assessment of Hydration is a simple protocol for assessing the risk of dehydration in older people and ensuring they drink enough.

Dehydration may signal nursing home neglect when staff fail to provide, monitor, or respond to a resident’s hydration needs. It is not automatically abuse: illness, medication, swallowing problems, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dehydration can be defined as loss of intracellular body water. To understand the causes it’s important to set out some basic information about our bodies in relation to water physiology. Water ...

If you have chronic dehydration, your body tries to make do with less water. You may have symptoms like dry skin, constipation, and fatigue, among others. Chronic dehydration can be serious. Your body ...