Category: AAL Articles

• AAL Articles

  Preventing heat stress in older people

  

  With rising temperatures, summer is a time of higher heat-related risk for older people. For aged care providers and workers, now is the time to prepare for the heat, and take steps to stop heat-related illness.  Heat causes more people to die each year in Australia than any other natural hazard. When heatwaves occur, the death toll routinely reaches into the hundreds.   People over 65 are at highest risk…

  June 16, 2026