Understanding Older People and Their Needs in a Humanitarian Context

HelpAge International. 03/2017 This 30-minute online course provides insight into aging, and highlights the challenges older men and women face and the factors that put them at increased risk in a humanitarian crisis caused by conflict or natural disaster. It is intended to guide users to promote an inclusive humanitarian response to ensure that older people are taken into account before, throughout, and after the response. (Text) Site requires free registration.

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - February 23, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news