It has created misery, and also underscored a recognition that health risks stand to intensify as changing climate brings higher temperatures that will likely endure for longer periods. Rising temperatures threaten more than misery for oldest Americans:
Laura Lowry, who is on disability and who said that she could not afford to run her air conditioner, in Houston, July 7, 2023.
It has created misery, and has also underscored a recognition that health risks stand to intensify as a changing climate brings higher temperatures that will likely endure for longer periods. “They’re at extremely high risk of heat stroke and death,” James H. Diaz, a professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at Louisiana State University’s School of Public Health, said of older people. “When we look at what happens with these heat waves, most of the deaths occur in the homebound elderly.
Signs of heat stress include feelings of exhaustion and possibly a headache, dizziness and flushed skin. “Your skin may be moist and clammy, your pupils are dilated,” Diaz said. “You may be sweating a little bit but not enough.” “By the time I leave here I’m drained,” she said at the center Friday. “I’m just slumped over on the bus after just a minute of being out there.”
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