Occurrence of Tsunami Elderly and Disasters
COURSE NAME: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS POPULATIONS
Weeks Ten –Elderly and Disasters
Week 10 Required Readings:
connecting future evacuation to current recovery – saving the lives of older people.pdf
recommendations for best practices in the management of elderly disaster victims.pdf
Frail elderly as dis victims-Fernandez.pdf
Discussion Bored Questions
1. Read the entire “Recommendations for Best Practices” paper. At the end of the paper – beginning on page 31 – there is an annotated bibliography that includes several relevant papers. Track down any two of those papers, read them and write a 250 word (max) summary. Note – Only one student can summarize any paper. First come, first served. Make your choice, stake your claim, post your intent to review the paper.
2. The Jenkins et al paper discusses “The Disaster Cycle” and “Issues for a Successful Recovery.” Choose one of those topics and research the literature to support what these authors have to say. Write a 250 word summary of the article you found.
3- Respond critically to two of my classmates post (attached).
– APA Style
– Kindly, answer all discussion questions clearly and completely.
