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Why Disasters Like Sandy Hit the Elderly Hard
2013-03-08 18:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Heat waves, storm flooding aggravated by rising sea levels and other extreme events associated with climate change can affect everyone when they hit, but the danger isn't shared equally. One segment of the population -- the elderly -- is particular vulnerable when disaster strikes. In Louisiana, about 71 percent of those who died as a result of Hurricane Katrina were older than 60, and nearly half were older than 75, according to a 2006 federal report. About two weeks after Hurricane Sandy...
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