Aging disaster: Mortality, vulnerability, and long-term recovery among Katrina survivors

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-270

  Adams, Vincanne ^a   Kaufman, Sharon R ^a   van Hattum, Taslim ^a   Moody, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Disaster; Long term recovery; New Orleans

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ORLEANS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 79957550697     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.560777     Document Type: Article

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