Nursing Homes in Public Health Emergencies: Special Needs and Potential Roles the elderly are particularly vulnerable to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies due to their complex physical, medical, and psychological needs. However, little is known about the extent to which nursing homes have planned for and/or been incorporated into regional planning efforts
US AHRQ (Jul 2007)
Entries categorized as ‘Aged care’
Emergencies and nursing homes
July 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Categories: Aged care · Emergency planning
Homelessness and older people
May 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Local homelessness strategies and older people older homeless people have become the forgotten homeless and a low priority for policy makers and service providers. Often older people do not make the same demands on services compared with younger people and so are easier to ignore. They often have a complex combination of problems or issues that many mainstream services are too rigid to cater for.
UK Coalition on Older Homelessness (May 2007)
