How to Avoid and Treat Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke

The CDC reports that seniors are more prone to heat stress than younger people because:

• Seniors do not adjust as well as young people to sudden changes in temperature.
• Seniors are more likely to have a chronic medical condition that upsets normal body responses to heat.
• Seniors are more likely to take prescription medicines that impair the body's ability to regulate its temperature, or that inhibit perspiration.