Older adults could be affected at temperatures lower than previously thought: Study

(Aug 18) Global warming breaching three degrees Celsius will affect older adults in India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, accounting for 1.5 billion people, or 73 per cent of the total affected population worldwide, a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has projected.

Older people could face serious health risks from heat at lower temperatures than previously estimated, it found.

South Asia and the Persian Gulf regions are shown to be the most exposed, where older adults could face a dangerous heat day and night for three months straight once warming reaches three degrees Celsius or above, researchers, including those from Stanford and The Pennsylvania State universities, said.