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 Katrina, as other articles in this issue have noted. Most striking, perhaps, is the estimation that 74 percent of hurricane-related deaths were among those 60 years of age and older (Simerman, Ott, and Mellnik, 2005). Older adults were among the most vulnerable post-disaster subgroups because of their lack of connection to resources and supports (Rudowitz, Rowland, and Shartzer, 2006). And, as has also been ...

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