Deadly heat waves threaten older people as summer nears
The heat dangers long known in the Phoenix area are becoming familiar nationwide as global warming creates new challenges to protect the aged.
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The heat dangers long known in the Phoenix area are becoming familiar nationwide as global warming creates new challenges to protect the aged.
The heat dangers long known in the Phoenix area are becoming familiar nationwide as global warming creates new challenges to protect the aged.
As heat waves fueled by climate change arrive earlier, grow more intense and last longer, people over 60 who are more vulnerable to high temperatures are...
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 (37 C) heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner broke down.
Older people like the Sun Lakes mobile home resident accounted for most of the 77 people who died last summer