PMID: 18183747Jan 11, 2008Paper

Disaster evacuation: an exploratory study of older men and women in Georgia and North Carolina

Journal of Gerontological Nursing
Marlene M RosenkoetterElizabeth Fugate-Whitlock

Abstract

This article describes an exploratory study designed to compare the characteristics, evacuation beliefs, risk factors, and health problems of older adults living in two Georgia counties and three North Carolina counties regarding willingness to evacuate in the event of a natural disaster. More than 75% of men and women in this study listened to news about Hurricane Katrina, yet one third of the men said that they may or would not evacuate. In this study, being influenced by the outcomes of Hurricane Katrina and belief in following the advice of county officials were the only two statistically significant predictors of evacuation tendency.

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