Aging and Climate Change

Karl Pillemer is Hazel E. Reed Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.Liat Ayalon is Professor in the Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University and Chair of the Impact Center for the Study of Older Age and Ageism.

• 1. IntroductionPart I: Vulnerability of Older People2. Climate Change and the Health of Older Adults - Ruth McDermott-Levy and Erica Kathryn Husser3. Population Aging and Extreme Heat: Patterns, Projections, and Consequences for Older Adults’ Well-Being - Deborah Carr, Giacomo Falchetta, and Ian Sue Wing4. Air Pollution and Frailty in the Age of Climate Change: Anthropological Insights into Aging and Environmental Health - Sayani Das and Liat AyalonPart II: Place, Aging, and Climate Change5. Quietly Displaced and Conveniently Forgotten: A Case for Older Climate Migrants and Refugees - Senjooti Roy and Liat Ayalon6. Aging and Radical Environmental Change: Why Don’t They Just Leave? - Marlene Friis, Jeanette Gustat, and Katie Cherry7. Aging in Place in a Changing Climate: Reimagining Age-Friendly Cities and Communities - Ryan Woolrych8. The Role of Natural Places in the Context of Climate Change and Aging - Selma Korlat and Jana NikitinPart III: Social and Family Contexts9. Social Relations and Climate Change: Risk, Resilience, and Opportunity - Noah Webster, Toni Antonucci, and Robert Marans10. Intergenerational Relations in the Age of Climate Change - Liat Ayalon, Zeyu Liu, and Karl PillemerPart IV: Caregiving in the Context of Climate Change11. The “Five C’s of Climate Change and Caregiving”: Moving from Catastrophic to Cohesive Caregiving for Older Adults - Angela Perone, Taylor Brown, Kate Fletcher, and Leixuri Urrutia-Pujana12. Long-Term Care and Climate Change - Andrea E. Schmidt and Ernest AignerPart V: Climate Resilience and Action13. Climate Resilience in Older Adults - Alexandra Holland, Sadaf Arefi Milani, and Andreea Seritan14. Coping with Heat in Older Age: A Synthesis of Health Behavior Change and Coping Models - Victoria Michalowski, Jennifer Lay, Dwight Tse, Helene H. Fung, and Theresa Pauly15. Climate Change, Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Aging: Adaptive Strategies of Older Persons in Africa amid the Triple Jeopardy - Mayeso Chinseu Lazaro, Senjooti Roy, and Liat Ayalon16. Older People as Agents of Change - Karl Pillemer, Julia Nolte, Marie Tillema Cope, Frances McMillan, Ashley Park, Gargi Rao, Chloe Shores, and Haojing ZhuPart VI: Policy Approaches17. Building Climate Resilience for an Aging Population: Exploring Policies and Programs Through a Social Connectedness Lens - Jacklyn Kohon, Dani Himes, and Bryant Carlson18. Health Care Response to Climate Change and Aging - Matthew Luebke, Emily Frey, Arnab Ghosh, Lena Makaroun, Mark Lachs, and Karl Pillemer19. Data, Methods, and Approaches for Studying Climate Change and Healthy Aging - Paola Zaninotto, Matthew Prina, Samia Akhter-Khan, and Yu-Tzu Wu20. Research Priorities for Aging and Climate Change - Liat Ayalon and Karl Pillemer

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