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.
Yes Tilly, It is not pleasant and difficult to explain because it is not like being hot and perspiring because you have been perhaps working out at the gym. It is something that starts and goes right through you somehow, well you know, without me telling. Yours will probably stop after a while, it is only a very few who have to put up with it all the time.