Many U.S. cities have plans to protect people during heat waves, opening cooling centers and distributing bottled water. But many older people need personalized attention
Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner broke down. Efforts to revive her failed, and her death was ruled environmental heat exposure aggravated by heart disease and diabetes.
Deaths like these are challenging community health systems, utility companies, apartment managers and local governments to better protect older people when temperatures soar Situated in the Sonoran Desert, Phoenix and its suburbs are ground zero for heat-associated deaths in the U.S. Such fatalities are so common that Arizona’s largest county keeps a
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