Childs, C.; Elliott, J.; Khatab, K.; Hampshaw, S.; Fowler-Davis, S.; Willmott, J.R.; Ali, A. Thermal Sensation in Older People with and Without Dementia Living in Residential Care: New Assessment Approaches to Thermal Comfort Using Infrared Thermography. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2020, 17, 6932.
Childs, C.; Elliott, J.; Khatab, K.; Hampshaw, S.; Fowler-Davis, S.; Willmott, J.R.; Ali, A. Thermal Sensation in Older People with and Without Dementia Living in Residential Care: New Assessment Approaches to Thermal Comfort Using Infrared Thermography. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6932.
Childs, C.; Elliott, J.; Khatab, K.; Hampshaw, S.; Fowler-Davis, S.; Willmott, J.R.; Ali, A. Thermal Sensation in Older People with and Without Dementia Living in Residential Care: New Assessment Approaches to Thermal Comfort Using Infrared Thermography. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health2020, 17, 6932.
Childs, C.; Elliott, J.; Khatab, K.; Hampshaw, S.; Fowler-Davis, S.; Willmott, J.R.; Ali, A. Thermal Sensation in Older People with and Without Dementia Living in Residential Care: New Assessment Approaches to Thermal Comfort Using Infrared Thermography. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6932.
Abstract
The temperature of the indoor environment is important for health and wellbeing especially at the extremes of age. The study aim was to undertsand the relationship between self-reported thermal sensation and extremity skin temperature in care home residents with and without dementia. The Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) was used to discriminate residents to two categories, those with and those without dementia. After acclimatisation, measurements included: tympanic membrane temperature, thermal sensation rating followed by infrared thermal mapping of non-dominant hand and forearm. Sixty-nine afebrile adults (60-101 years of age) were studied in groups of two to five, in mean ambient temperatures of 21.4oC-26.6oC (median 23.6oC). Significant differences were observed between groups; thermal sensation rating (p=0.02), tympanic temperature (p=0.01), fingertip skin temperature (p=0.01) and temperature gradients; fingertip-wrist p=0.001 and fingertip-distal forearm, p=0.001.
Medicine and Pharmacology, Medicine and Pharmacology
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