Every year dozens of elderly people are found dead in their unheated apartments and listed as victims of hypothermia. what is hypothermia, and how does it kill? why are the elderly more susceptible to hypothermia than the young?

Hypothermia is the decrease in body temperature and occurs when the body loses heat faster than it produces. It is usually fatal when the body temperature drops below 30 degrees Celsius. Under these conditions the central nervous system and the cardiovascular system cease to function properly, first of all, if this condition persists, they cease to function and death occurs.

In the elderly, the body's ability to regulate the temperature and feel cold is reduced, added to the previous one is the fact that they cannot change position to look for heat due to certain pathological conditions.

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