Inclusion of older people in DRR

This study analyzed national trends in heatstroke-related emergency transports from 2010 to 2024 using Fire and Disaster Management Agency surveillance data in Japan focusing on age distribution, case severity, place of occurrence, and regional variation.

Extreme heat is now considered the deadliest weather and climate-related hazard in Europe, causing more deaths than floods or storms.

Heat waves are striking in surprising places where milder temperatures were once the norm

Analysis in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows how heatwaves, extreme cold, and heavy rain impact the incidence of heart disease in older populations.

Climate change has long been associated with risks such as sea-level rise and biodiversity loss. Now it raises deeper questions of whether future generations will live not only longer lives, but healthier ones

Once considered a luxury, air conditioning has become an essential safeguard for nursing home residents. A Ontario-based study published in JAMA Internal Medicine underscores the heightened mortality risk associated with extreme heat in nursing homes.

Older adults who were exposed to heavy rainfall after Hurricane Harvey in 2017 faced a 3% increase in the risk of death within the following year, a new University of Michigan study found.

A new three-year Charles Sturt University research project has uncovered how extreme heat is quietly disrupting home care services in rural New South Wales.

The alarm device carried by certain elderly people is part of a government push in Japan to combat a deadly double emergency: the collision of the country’s climate crisis and its aging population.

This study aimed to evaluate the feelings and thoughts of the elderly individuals who experienced floods in Türkiye before, during, and after the floods, and to reveal how they were affected, their vulnerability, and coping capacities.