{"title":"Eldercare--the coming storm.","authors":"James D Blair","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author maintains that Long Term Care sites, specifically nursing homes, are the most vulnerable of healthcare facilities to natural and manmade disasters, and that casualties among the elderly in recent hurricanes and tornados have been greatly underestimated.</p>","PeriodicalId":73772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare protection management : publication of the International Association for Hospital Security","volume":"29 2","pages":"101-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of healthcare protection management : publication of the International Association for Hospital Security","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The author maintains that Long Term Care sites, specifically nursing homes, are the most vulnerable of healthcare facilities to natural and manmade disasters, and that casualties among the elderly in recent hurricanes and tornados have been greatly underestimated.