Why are elderly patients dehydrated?

Being a family physician and geriatrician for more than 38 years, I’m trying to better understand why our elderly patients, and in general, elderly people, suffer from dehydration. For sure, there are many reasons. Some of those are simple, but some of the hidden ones we don’t think about. For example, just by getting older, we end up having less water in our bodies. Living in a humid area and …

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