TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Post Critical Care in the Geriatric Population A1 - Jacobs, Laurie G. A1 - Zorowitz, Robert A. A2 - Go, Ronaldo C. Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Understanding Crisis in Critical Care AB - Older adults are particularly vulnerable in a disaster or a pandemic. This increase in risk is multifactorial, and includes intrinsic factors such as underlying physiologic alterations associated with aging, a diminished physiologic reserve, visual and hearing impairment, impaired mobility, and frailty, a clinical phenotype associated with a reduced ability to overcome stressors. Other factors impacting older adults are extrinsic and include the need for prescription medications, inadequate social supports and social isolation, food insecurity and low economic status, all of which are associated with an increased risk of morbidity in older adults during a disaster or pandemic.1 Triage, care, and rehabilitation of older adult victims of disasters or pandemics must consider these issues in developing care plans. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1184387735 ER -