Older People and Thirst

They both pretty much drink coffee and that's about it. That seems par for the course for their generation. I think you're right about not sweating as much as we grow older, I've noticed it with myself too but it still is easy for the elderly to get dehydrated. When my mom fractured her hip they discovered she was dehydrated and it was really lucky they did because it would've caused her kidneys to fail before much longer. It's funny, but the fluid goes somewhere, heaven knows where...lol. There's another older lady that goes to our local pool in the summer with her daughter and granddaughter. She's a year younger than my mom but she's in fantastic shape for her age; she walks all the time and she even swims, not much but a little bit. But her daughter has to fight with her to drink water even if it's 90 in the shade. She'll insist that she's no thirsty and that it makes her too full. Annie

The weather and or temperature make no difference as far as my dad goes with drinking beverages. he tends to prefer coffe and nothing else. Maybe a glass of milk with dinner is it. I think it may also have to do with the sweat glands not producing as in our younger years. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

You should check with your dad's doctor, but I think he probably should have more water than that. Like I said my mom was dehydrated when she fractured her hip. I'd been after her all along to drink plenty of water but I was working every day at the time and she was saying she was when she wasn't. You're probably right about older people not wanting to have to get up to use the bathroom so much. But their urine output is also very important because kidney problems are quite common with the elderly. I've learned quite a bit from my mom's problems, plus my daughter spent many years working at a nursing home. Annie