Strengthening community resilience: supporting older adults through emergency preparedness and response in a post-COVID era
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Scher, Clara, author Rubano, Mario, author Diep, Andrea, author Kieffer, Elana, author
- Contributor(s):
- New York Academy of Medicine, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, NY : New York Academy of Medicine, [2023]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Aged Community Health Services COVID-19 Disaster Planning -- organization & administration Health Services for the Aged -- organization & administration Resilience, Psychological New York City
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- New York City (NYC) has faced several new and unprecedented challenges brought on by the ongoing climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. When COVID-19 reached the United States, NYC became the epicenter of the outbreak. It is estimated that in the first three months of the pandemic, approximately 77% of COVID-19 related deaths in New York State were of those 65 and older. Older adults are disproportionately affected by COVID-19 due in part to the increased presence of chronic conditions (e.g., hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes) and immunodeficiency. The purpose of this report is to summarize the ways in which older adults and aging service providers have demonstrated resilience in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing climate change events as well as develop recommendations to support older adults and the professionals who work with them--in NYC and beyond--in the face of future emergencies. This report was guided by the RAND Corporation’s Framework for Community Resilience, which suggests that a community’s response to and recovery from a disaster is determined by the extent to which it draws on several levers of community resilience.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (25 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918734069606676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918734069606676