2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of the method to perform assessment of the dehydration of elderly people easily
| Project/Area Number |
25862242
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Gerontological nursing
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| Research Institution | University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan |
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Principal Investigator |
nakamae miyuki 産業医科大学, 産業保健学部, 講師 (40434675)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 脱水 / 皮膚水分 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Elderly aged 75 or over was lacking in slight fluid intake, and, from a young old, a comparison between young people and physique of the elderly aged 75 or over, it was found by a decrease in age-related intracellular fluid volume to have possibilities to be easy to fall into dehydration.Also, we relatively measured the wrist inside, the cubital joint inside, an ankle medial malleolus, skin moisture of the posterior region of neck in economical life-care facility residents with a little active mass.In the posterior region of neck, what we might use as the observation site which could discover dehydration early was relatively suggested because water was the site which we could hold.
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| Free Research Field |
基礎看護学
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