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Dehydration: best practice in the care home
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Naomi
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing and Residential Care, 14(1), January 2012, pp.21-25.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare Ltd.
- Place of publication:
- London
Dehydration of older people in care homes leads to both patient suffering and increased health care costs. This review article looks at the risk factors of dehydration in older people, provides an overview of current best practice guidelines for hydration and discusses strategies to encourage patients to drink more. Two UK initiatives which helped to increase patient and staff awareness of the importance of drinking more fluids, The East Anglia Water company campaign 'Healthy on Tap' and the project 'Thirst 4 Life' in Buckinghamshire, are also briefly mentioned.
Innovations to support hydration care across health and social care
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Naomi
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Community Nursing, 21(Sup7), 2016, p.S24–S29.
- Publisher:
- MA Healthcare
- Place of publication:
- London
It is known that the primary cause of dehydration in elderly care is caused by a person not regularly drinking enough. Dehydration is a much-publicised national concern, associated with poor outcomes of care and acute hospital admissions. However, in November last year, NHS England stated that the scale of dehydration is not known; in comparison, it confirmed at least three million people are at risk of malnutrition. The stark comparison in information occurs because there is no nationally recognised screening tool to identify who is at risk of dehydration. An innovative nursing role, focused on finding solutions to reduce the risk of dehydration in the care of older and vulnerable persons, has led to the development of a simple dehydration screening tool called ‘ROC to drink’ (ROC stands for ‘reliance on a carer’), which focuses on the level of support needed to drink. An innovative tea cup has been designed to help raise standards for monitoring drinks and raise awareness about intake. (Publisher abstract)