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Connecting Future Evacuation to Current Recovery: Saving the Lives of Older People in the Next Catastrophe
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Generations
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December 1, 2007
- Author:
- Jenkins, Pamela; Laska, Shirley; Williamson, Gretchen
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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 where no one came for days, in buses on the way to Houston or Atlanta. These deaths were unexpected, but they could have been avoided. We hope that lessons of this terrible experience and the voices of the elders who remain will guide future planning.
As the whole world witnessed during the last week of August 2005, the evacuation of New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina was tragically inadequate for a ...