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Climate Change and Aging | November 12, 2024 Workshop

Agenda & Plenaries

  • Workshop Agenda
  • Welcome and Overview of the RCCN - Stephen Kritchevsky (Slides)
  • Plenary: NIA Priorities and Program Areas - Emerald Nguyen (Slides) (Recording)
  • Plenary: Geroscience and Climate Science: Oppositional or Complementary - Colin Farrelly (Slides) (Recording)

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)