Climate Change and Aging | November 12, 2024 Workshop
Agenda & Plenaries
Topic 1: Exposures
- Heat Waves, Climate Change, and Implications for an Aging Population - Kai Chen (Slides) (Recording)
- Climate stressors and their implications for biological aging outcomes - Eun Young Choi (Slides) (Recording)
- Cold snaps impact on aging populations - Kai Zhang (Slides)
- Impact of climate change on infectious disease mortality - Audrey Dorélien (Slides) (Recording)
Topic 2: Vulnerabilities
- Post disaster vulnerabilities and resilience of older adults - Alexis A. Merdjanoff (Slides) (Recording)
- Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21st Century - Deborah Carr (Slides) (Recording)
- Intersection of vulnerability and resilience to climate change in marginalized
communities - Nnenia Campbell (Recording) - Climate change and noncommunicable disease risk - Laura Sands (Slides) (Recording)
Topic 3: Interventions to Cope with Climate Change
- Reducing community and nursing home exposure to a changing climate - David Dosa (Slides) (Recording)
- Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios’ impact on older adults - Timothy Kohler (Recording)
- Urban design and resilience to climate change - Arnab Ghosh (Slides) (Recording)
- Impact of natural disasters on social relations in aging populations - Danielle Maltais (Slides) (Recording)
Topic 4: Intermediary between disaster and health outcomes
- Physiological responses to extreme heat exposure in older individuals - Craig Crandall (Slides) (Recording)
- Environmental exposures’ impact on dementia risk - Aisha Dickerson (Recording)
- Communication of public health consequences - Edward Maibach
- Mitigation through interrupted pathways between exposure and health consequence to older adults - Carina Gronlund (Slides) (Recording)