For older adults, disaster risk starts long before disaster strikes

For older adults, no disaster is simple. Repeated hurricanes, floods, wildfires and heat waves can combine with chronic illness, limited mobility, weak social support and strained care systems to create risks greater than any one factor alone. As disasters grow more severe and frequent—and increasingly overlap or strike before communities have fully recovered—preparing for and recovering from them becomes even more challenging.

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