Elderly long-term care residents suffer cognitively during disasters

Friday, October 21, 2011 - 22:30 in Health & Medicine

In a summer with unprecedented weather events, from tornadoes, floods, fires and hurricanes, researchers found that physiological changes associated with aging and the presence of chronic illness make older adults more susceptible to illness or injury, even death, during a disaster.

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