Disaster Preparedness and the Chronic Disease Needs of Vulnerable Older Adults

About 80% of older adults have at least one chronic condition that makes them more vulnerable than healthy people during a disaster. These chronic conditions — combined with the physiological, sensory, and cognitive changes experienced as part of aging — result in frail older adults having special n...

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Autores principales: Aldrich, Nancy, Benson, William F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Tools and Techniques
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18082016
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description About 80% of older adults have at least one chronic condition that makes them more vulnerable than healthy people during a disaster. These chronic conditions — combined with the physiological, sensory, and cognitive changes experienced as part of aging — result in frail older adults having special needs during emergencies. Planning and coordination among public health and emergency preparedness professionals and professionals who provide services for the aging are essential to meet these special needs. Several tools and strategies already exist to help prepare these professionals to protect and assist older adults during a disaster. These include having professionals from diverse fields work and train in coalitions, ensuring that advocates for older adults participate in community-wide emergency preparedness, and using community mapping data to identify areas where many older adults live.
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spelling pubmed-22487692008-03-06 Disaster Preparedness and the Chronic Disease Needs of Vulnerable Older Adults Aldrich, Nancy Benson, William F Prev Chronic Dis Tools and Techniques About 80% of older adults have at least one chronic condition that makes them more vulnerable than healthy people during a disaster. These chronic conditions — combined with the physiological, sensory, and cognitive changes experienced as part of aging — result in frail older adults having special needs during emergencies. Planning and coordination among public health and emergency preparedness professionals and professionals who provide services for the aging are essential to meet these special needs. Several tools and strategies already exist to help prepare these professionals to protect and assist older adults during a disaster. These include having professionals from diverse fields work and train in coalitions, ensuring that advocates for older adults participate in community-wide emergency preparedness, and using community mapping data to identify areas where many older adults live. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2248769/ /pubmed/18082016 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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title_fullStr Disaster Preparedness and the Chronic Disease Needs of Vulnerable Older Adults
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title_short Disaster Preparedness and the Chronic Disease Needs of Vulnerable Older Adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2248769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18082016
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