AI Summary

Older adults face compounded risks when natural disasters—hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and heat waves—occur alongside chronic illness, limited mobility, weak social support, and strained care systems. The combination of these factors creates danger greater than any single element alone. As disasters grow more severe and frequent, they increasingly overlap or strike before communities have fully recovered. This overlap makes preparing for and recovering from such events even more challenging for older populations.

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