Correspondence: Nobhojit Roy, MS, MPH Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management Tata Institute of Social Sciences New Campus Deonar Farm Road Mumbai 400088 India E-mail: [email protected] Youichi Yanagawa and colleagues have candidly admitted the problems of the ‘‘Medical Evacuation of Patients to other Hospitals due to the Fukushima I Nuclear Accidents.’’ The Fukushima nuclear accident was a L...

he boomers are coming," and hospitals are ill prepared to meet their needs, Victor Kane, PhD, warned the audience at the American Society on Aging's March conference. In 1996 the first baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1965) turn 50, the age when many people first begin to experience chronic illnesses. Boomers, tomorrow's elderly market, will live longer (and thus will be sicker) and will dem...

Responding to the deaths and suffering of older adults in long-term care facilities following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, the John A. Hartford Foundation funded an initiative called Hurricane and Disaster Preparedness for Long-Term Care Facilities. Long-term care providers are now acknowledged as health care providers by most federal and state emergency response centers. This paper des...

Two freshmen an Honor Council member and a candidate for Student Government secretary -are among 28 students who will face judicial action as a result of having alcohol confiscated from their rooms during Spring Break. Reports were filed by residence life and housing staff members against 41 students found in possession of alcohol during health and safety inspections. Janna Laing, who was elect...

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