Urban hypothermia
- 13 January 1996
- Vol. 312 (7023) , 124
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.312.7023.124a
Abstract
# Many elderly people cannot keep warm in winter without financial hardship {#article-title-2} EDITOR,—L J Hislop and colleagues' finding that patients who were found hypothermic inside their own homes were mainly elderly people who had heating available but were not using it is of great concern.1 We have performed a questionnaire study of domestic heating, in which 200 mentally competent elderly inpatients were interviewed (mean age 82).2 All were admitted to acute geriatric wards last winter. Most patients (138) …Keywords
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