Why It'S Critical to Plan Climate Change Adaptations for Older Adults


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"We rarely discuss who is the most likely to be injured or even die in extreme weather events caused by climate change, which is older adults, over the age of 60," Amy Feiereisel writes for the Syracuse Post-Standard.

That's changing.

In just a decade, we'll have more older adults in the US than people under 18 for the first time, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency says the number of climate-fueled disasters is on the rise.

Older adults are disproportionately affected, and planner Danielle Arigoni says she was inspired to write the book Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation because "when you begin to see the statistics that show in every disaster, regardless of the catalyst, older adults are disproportionately represented among those who died."

For example, 70% of the people who died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were over 65, and in the California Camp Fire last year, 63% of the people who died were over 60.

"We just see this time and time and time again," Arigoni tells Feiereisel.

"For me, when I began to see that trend, it was deeply troubling, and it occurred to me that we're not creating great places for people to age if we can't protect them in

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