My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

According to the World Health Organization, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths every year worldwide between 2030 and 2050. They will occur where health systems are weakest and climate impacts are harshest—through malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, respiratory failure, and heat stress.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And it is going to affect, if it hasn’t already, our food quality, the food that’s available, our medications. There’s an issue with an extreme heat, the medications may lose its efficacy, and there’s certain medications that make someone more vulnerable to heat emissions- Eric: And the power outages that we see.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability.

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