#  Deadly Heat Waves Threaten Older People as Summer Nears 

 





April 30, 2023

 

 

 HUCE Faculty Associate Aaron Bernstein discusses the personalized attention that should be paid to older people during heat waves and other extreme weather events

 *By Anita Snow, [AP News](https://apnews.com/article/climate-aging-heat-deaths-f95f3567fe9fa97c03c59bdfe839e202)*

 Paramedics summoned to an Arizona retirement community last summer found an 80-year-old woman slumped inside her mobile home, enveloped in the suffocating 99-degree (37 C) heat she suffered for days after her air conditioner broke down. Efforts to revive her failed, and her death was ruled environmental heat exposure aggravated by heart disease and diabetes.

 In America’s hottest big metro, older people like the Sun Lakes mobile home resident accounted for most of the 77 people who died last summer in broiling heat inside their homes, almost all without air conditioning. Now, the heat dangers long known in greater Phoenix are becoming familiar nationwide as global warming creates new challenges to protect the aged.

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