Warm Clothing

[jamesnan]

I feel the cold quite badly and always have cold hands and feet. I have noticed many times that many elderly people just do not wear appropriate clothing for the cold weather, and don't understand why many more do not wear fleece trousers, long sleeved cotton tee shirts and a fleece zipper jacket over the top when they are sitting around indoors. It is even more important when they go outside. So many older people wear acrylic type skirts and trousers, which are completely useless if the weather is cold, and so many of them do not wear socks, and boots, preferring instead to wear stockings and shoes.
We have to get used to dressing in warmer lighter layers when the weather is cold, and it is not expensive to buy fleece clothing nowadays from the cheaper clothing chain stores. If you have to buy an older person a christmas present, think about fleecy type clothes. They will be eternally grateful.

[Tilly2]

The problem with fleeces, jamesnan, is that they don't look very smart. They are warm though, I'll give you that.

[EcclesCake]

Whilst I appreciate the point you are making it is a matter of personal choice at the end of the day.

[2sp_]

My granny will die of frostbite before she will wear a fleece. She won't even wear trousers.

She's very old fashioned, and at 90 not one to be told what to do either.

[2sp_]

(But I do appreciate the sentiment behind your post, jamesnan.)

[pixie373]

The heating of some of our client's houses, would make t-shirts appropriate! Fleeces are good, though. But it's personal choice.

[Old_Geezer]

I guess some folks' nerves are more efficient at passing temperature data than other folks are. I suspect one can sensitise or desensitise oneself when younger. Personally I have a small range of temperatures I am comfortable in, and so would tend to dress warmly this time of year. I can not believe those presently in summer wear, feels the same as I do.

[woofgang]

Maybe they don't feel the cold like you do?

[jamesnan]

It seems as if feeling cold runs in my family, since my daughters are the same, but unless I amwrapped up warm, wearing loose fleece clothes, my body feels cold and is cold, so for us, warm is best! I know heating costs are rising all the time, and it is just a thought that if more appropriate clothing was worn, perhaps some elderly people would feel more comfortable.

[DTCwordfan]

Spare a thought for those Syrians in refugee camps facing snow and -6C tonight...the elderly and children, some of the latter without shoes, just sandals.

[lady-janine]

i have found silk next to the skin best. to this with cotton or wool. not keen on fleece.

[jno]

it may be the inside/outside thing. Used to be that when winter came you dressed up warmly because it would be cold inside houses/shops etc as well as outside. Now people often feel there's no point as they'll be indoors most fo the time.

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[atalanta]

Maybe you and your daughters have Raynaud's disease. It can be treated.
If other people don't have this disease, they will not feel the cold as acutely as you do.