Risk assessment of dehydration for need of nursing care elderly people: Development of the simple assessment index using the saliva

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23660121
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Community health/Gerontological nurisng
• Research Institution: Sanyo Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: MAYUMI Okuyama 山陽学園大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (30293294)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NISHIDA Masumi (70128065)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 高齢者 / 脱水症 / 予防 / ケア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted the questionary survey for the nursing manager of the nursing home. The elderly people recognized that it was difficult to diagnose dehydration, and the nursing manager felt it if a new index was necessary. Then, for the elderly people in nursing home, we measured a blood test, salivary sampling, an intraoral fluid volume, temperature, the humidity under the side, an internal fluid volume. As a result, it was temperature under the side to be effective for risk metrics of dehydration, and, as for the saliva ingredient, what we could not utilize for risk metrics of dehydration was found.

Free Research Field

老年看護学