Recently added articles from Generations:

Miss Janine's Story: Deciding to Stay

Dec 01, 2007; Croom, Carolyn; Jenkins, Pamela J; Eddy, Abigail ... 'Margie said, you know I don't want to go, and I knew it was because of the vow we had made.' Miss Janine1 has been a resident of New Orleans since the age of 17. She is 84 years old and has lived alone since the death of her husband in 1992. When Hurricane Katrina threatened, she was in ...

Rapid Needs Assessments for Older Adults in Disasters

Dec 01, 2007; Burnett, Jason; Dyer, Carmel B; Pickins, Sabrina ... Medical, social, ADL evaluations among the cots in the Astrodome. It has been reported that on average, a disaster takes place somewhere in the world every day (Norris, 2005). Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks cause extensive damage and simultaneously ...

Miss Kimberley's Story: Deciding to Evacuate to a Nursing Home

Dec 01, 2007; Croom, Carolyn; Jenkins, Pamela J; Eddy, Abigail ... 'The nuns had two big tour buses filled with residents.' Miss Kimberly1 is an 80-year-old widow who has lived all her life in uptown New Orleans and is an active member of the local senior center. She currently resides with her daughter, now in her 60s. Neither she nor her daughter ever ...

Applying the 'Disaster Lens' to Older Adults

Dec 01, 2007; Campbell, Jenny ... What are the lessons? Take a look at your own community Katrina. Rita. September 11. The Chicago Heat Wave of 1995. The tsunami of 2005. All were disasters of extraordinary scope and brutality. Each had a profound impact upon older adults, their families, and the professionals charged ...

Talks about disasters and older adults

Dec 01, 2007; Johnson, Mary ... Any profession devoted to human service has much to learn from a horrific event like Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, but for the field of aging this disaster is of particular concern because a large proportion of the victims-and, it turns out, many of the heroeswere older people. Now, with ...

Ms. Jackson's Story: Leaving a Pet Behind

Dec 01, 2007; Croom, Carolyn; Jenkins, Pamela J; Eddy, Abigail ... 'I figured either the cat has made it or she hasn't.' Ms. Jackson1 is director of a senior center in New Orleans. She and her husband fled Hurricane Katrina, traveling first to Memphis and then to her son's home outside of Baton Rouge. The couple returned to New Orleans on September 30, ...

The Vulnerable Geriatric Casualty: Medical Needs of Frail Older Adults During Disasters

Dec 01, 2007; Rothman, Marc; Brown, Lisa M ... A daunting challenge. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, more than 70 percent of fatalities resulting from the storm were among people age 60 or older. The older population is particularly vulnerable to disasters, which obviously place a severe strain on the medical and ...

Issues in Mental Health Care for Older Adults After Disasters

Dec 01, 2007; Brown, Lisa M ... Older adults typically fare better psychologically than do younger disaster victims. But large numbers of vulnerable elders need help. Chronological age is a poor indicator of a person's potential need for mental health care services in the event of a disaster. For example, the needs ...

When a Crisis Goes On and On: A Worker's Perspective

Dec 01, 2007; Croom, Carolyn; Jenkins, Pamela J; Eddy, Abigail ... 'Problems way beyond my scope ...' Ms. Brown1 is the social services director for an aging organization in New Orleans. After shuttling between a series of temporary offices, she ws able to return to her original office in January 2006. Since the storm, she has worked vigorously fir the ...

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities: Planning and Decision Making for Sheltering in Place or Evacuation

Dec 01, 2007; Hyer, Kathryn; Polivka-West, LuMarie; Brown, Lisa M ... Both options carry risks. Although significant progress has been made in disaster preparedness since the devastating 2005 hurricane season in the Gulf Coast states, unique challenges remain for long-term-care providers in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and continuing-care ...

The Story of the Senior Center: Meeting Immediate Needs

Dec 01, 2007; Croom, Carolyn; Jenkins, Pamela J; Eddy, Abigail ... 'We left notes on seniors' doors saying, The center is going to reopen.' We met Ms. Jackson1 earlier where she talked about leaving a pet behind. In this section, she talks about the hurricane from a worker's perspective. She is the director of a large senior center. Because it did not ...

After the Storm: When Houston Becomes Home

Dec 01, 2007; James, Charlene Hunter; Scantlebury, Carolyn ... A community welcome. Many older adults who were displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina cannot return to the place they once called home. What happened to these individuals who have been permanently displaced? For many of the older people who fled New Orleans and ended up ...

When a Terrorist Attacks: September 11 and the Impact on Older Adults in New York City

Dec 01, 2007; Jellinek, Igal; Willig, Judy ... Reflections after six years. There has not been a cloudless late summer day that has not brought uninvited memories. It has been six years since New Yorkers watched transfixed, horrified, and unbelieving, but the years melt away when sirens scream. It is September n all over again. In ...

Ethics and Disasters: Mapping the Moral Territory

Dec 01, 2007; Fahey, Msgr Charles J ... Do the right thing. Katrina was not a singular happening. We are reminded daily of unexpected events either actually or potentially harming frail people. It seems that one cannot read a newspaper or watch television without experiencing-at least vicariously-floods, fires, hurricanes, ...

Connecting Future Evacuation to Current Recovery: Saving the Lives of Older People in the Next Catastrophe

Dec 01, 2007; Jenkins, Pamela; Laska, Shirley; Williamson, Gretchen ... An inextricable link. As we write this article, we remember the abandonment and eventual death of so many of our community elders. We mourn their deaths on the interstate, in their homes struggling far air, in the Superdome and theMorial Convention Center, in nursing homes and hospitals ...

International Perspectives on Aging and Disasters

Dec 01, 2007; Barratt, Jane ... What are best practices for less developed parts of the world? The changing global demographic means that in future years the proportion of older people worldwide who may be exposed to disasters will increase exponentially. And, while the health and functional status of older people is ...

Planning for and Responding to Special Needs of Elders in Natural Disasters

Dec 01, 2007; Pekovic, Vukosava; Seff, Laura; Rothman, Max B ... What we have learned. Older people are among the most vulnerable in the general population to the direct impact of natural disasters, as pictures from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina illustrated so graphically. In fact, elders are more likely to have impairments that limit their ...

KEY RESOURCES FOR DISASTER PLANNING FOR OLDER ADULTS

Dec 01, 2007; Campbell, Jenny ... PUBLICATIONS Administration on Aging: Emergency Assistance Guide (Administration on Aging). www.aoa.gov/pRESS/preparedness/pdf/Attachment_1357.pdf. (This guide is available as a 117-page PDF.) Aging Network Staff Disaster Survey (Administration on Aging) ....

On Belonging and Belongings: Older Adults, Katrina, and Lessons Learned

Dec 01, 2007; Campbell, Jenny ... Connection-to a family, a community, a social service system. While the nation watched in horror as the hurricanes of 2005 unfolded, professionals in the field of aging knew only too well the extraordinary toll that such an event would take on the older adults of the region. Over the ...

Emergency Preparedness and Response: Health and Social Policy Implications for Older Adults

Dec 01, 2007; Elmore, Diane L; Brown, Lisa M ... Additional efforts are necessary. The Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005 left more than 1,500 dead and 780,000 displaced persons (Louisiana Recovery Authority, 2006). While these disasters affected individuals across the lifespan, older adults were disproportionately affected by Hurricane ...