Yale’s new extreme weather dashboard could help older adults understand climate health risks

A new online tool out of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (YCCCH) strives to provide hyperlocal information about the range of extreme weather risks on mortality, including the potential impact on older adults.

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“We hope this kind of toolbox could be useful for the public to first understand their risks, but also maybe for the local government to say, in terms of different risk factors, which are leading to more health costs,” said Dr. Kai Chen, YCCCH faculty director and professor at the Yale School of Public Health.

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“Older adults tend to maybe have higher social isolation, and older adults may have an impaired sense of their surrounding environment, or have increased prevalence of chronic conditions,” Chen said.

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Chen said continuing to have accurate, reliable monitoring of climate change data is critical to public health – and said that includes having qualified federal staff to handle that information.

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