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THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS AS PERCEIVED BY ASSISTED LIVING ADMINISTRATORS

The importance of communities in disasters has been well established since Hurricane Katrina. Smit and Wandel’s bottom-up approach to assess risks during a disaster involves community stakeholders. Administrators of assisted living (AL) environments increasingly have to assess the risks of hurricane...

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Autores principales: Dobbs, Debra J, June, Joseph, Peterson, Lindsay J, Dosa, David, Jester, Dylan, Hyer, Kathyrn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6841406/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1438
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author Dobbs, Debra J
June, Joseph
Peterson, Lindsay J
Dosa, David
Jester, Dylan
Hyer, Kathyrn
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Peterson, Lindsay J
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description The importance of communities in disasters has been well established since Hurricane Katrina. Smit and Wandel’s bottom-up approach to assess risks during a disaster involves community stakeholders. Administrators of assisted living (AL) environments increasingly have to assess the risks of hurricane evacuation for vulnerable older adults. The current study examines intersections between social networks, communication and preparedness during a hurricane for AL administrators. We conducted focus groups and interviews with AL administrators (N=60) in Florida about communication patterns with community associations, emergency management officials, AL staff, residents and their families during Hurricane Irma (2017) and about their perceptions of preparedness. A content analysis approach was used. Atlas.ti v7 was used for initial and axial coding. Co-occurrences were found among communication and preparedness themes. Some prevalent themes included “social capital”, “high versus low tech strategies” and “leadership effectiveness”. Themes intersected with individual administrator and AL organizational characteristics.
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spelling pubmed-68414062019-11-15 THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS AS PERCEIVED BY ASSISTED LIVING ADMINISTRATORS Dobbs, Debra J June, Joseph Peterson, Lindsay J Dosa, David Jester, Dylan Hyer, Kathyrn Innov Aging Session 2065 (Symposium) The importance of communities in disasters has been well established since Hurricane Katrina. Smit and Wandel’s bottom-up approach to assess risks during a disaster involves community stakeholders. Administrators of assisted living (AL) environments increasingly have to assess the risks of hurricane evacuation for vulnerable older adults. The current study examines intersections between social networks, communication and preparedness during a hurricane for AL administrators. We conducted focus groups and interviews with AL administrators (N=60) in Florida about communication patterns with community associations, emergency management officials, AL staff, residents and their families during Hurricane Irma (2017) and about their perceptions of preparedness. A content analysis approach was used. Atlas.ti v7 was used for initial and axial coding. Co-occurrences were found among communication and preparedness themes. Some prevalent themes included “social capital”, “high versus low tech strategies” and “leadership effectiveness”. Themes intersected with individual administrator and AL organizational characteristics. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6841406/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1438 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort role of community engagement in hurricane preparedness as perceived by assisted living administrators
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