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An Emergency Preparedness Guide for Dialysis and Transplant Patients |
This guide, though targeted for individuals with renal disease, is an informative resource for healthcare facilities. Included is information on emergency renal diets and many resource links, including links for finding dialysis centers. |
Planning and Response |
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Caring for Elders During Disasters Continuum of Care Model: A Guide for Community-Based Planning |
This guide is the product of an ASPR-funded project to develop a model, information and resources to guide and support local communities in their efforts to develop and sustain a continuum of care for elders during disasters. This document, along with the Step-by-Step Companion Toolkit available as a separate PDF, provide a comprehensive guide to communities for engaging elder care stakeholders in the preparedness, response, and recovery cycles of all-hazards disaster management. The guide includes links to additional resources, and is one of five resources in the Continuum of Care Model. |
Planning and Response |
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Caring for Vulnerable Elders During a Disaster: National Findings of the 2007 Nursing Home Hurricane Summit |
This report of the 2007 Nursing Home Hurricane Summit outlines the discussion and resulting recommendations of 65 delegates from coastal hurricane states, representing a diverse spectrum of stakeholders. Delegates included nursing home representatives, emergency management, public health, medicine, transportation, federal (CMS), energy, and others. Topics discussed: Nursing Home Disaster Plans; Evacuation Decision Making; Inter-agency Relationships (Coordination, Cooperation and Collaboration); Communication; Technology and Use of Data; Transportation; Regulatory Issues; Power Restoration; Training and Drills; and Ethical Concerns. The Summit was funded jointly by the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Florida Health Care Association as part of a two-year project. |
Planning and Response |
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Communication with Vulnerable Populations: A Transportation and Emergency Management Toolkit |
This toolkit describes how to create a communication process to reach vulnerable populations regarding their transportation options in emergencies. This toolkit provides a guiding framework and tools for constructing a scalable, adaptable communication process built on a network of agencies from public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
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Planning and Response |
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Protecting the Air We Breathe - A Deeper Look at Legionnaires’ Disease |
CDC investigations of Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks show that the most common places for getting the disease are hotels, long-term care facilities, and hospitals. The most likely sources for spreading water droplets contaminated with Legionella germs are showers and faucets, cooling towers that are part of large, centralized air conditioning systems, hot tubs, and decorative fountains and water features. |
Planning and Response |
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Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health |
The Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health is a database of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available on the Internet at no cost. Documents include expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and similar materials selected from over 700 organizations for a professional audience. Materials selected are from non-commercial publishing sources and supplement disaster-related resources from PubMed (biomedical journal literature) and MedlinePlus (health information for the public). |
Planning and Response |
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The Effects of Evacuation on Nursing Home Residents with Dementia |
The authors of this report discuss their findings from research conducted on the effects of evacuation from Hurricane Gustav on residents with severe dementia.
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Planning and Response |
