{"id":50339,"date":"2024-05-14T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/extreme-heat-will-put-millions-more-older-adults-at-risk-in-the-future\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:04:10","slug":"extreme-heat-will-put-millions-more-older-adults-at-risk-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/14\/extreme-heat-will-put-millions-more-older-adults-at-risk-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme heat will put millions more older adults at risk in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly a quarter of the global population of older adults at mid-century could face extreme heat, putting their health in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2050, as many as an additional 246 million adults age 69 and older could experience temperature extremes that exceed 37.5\u00b0 Celsius<\/a>, researchers report May 14 in Nature Communications<\/em>. The new projection suggests that more than 23 percent of the global population of these older adults \u2014 largely concentrated in Africa and Asia \u2014 will encounter this intense heat, compared with 14 percent today.<\/p>\n\n\n