PROJECT PROPOSAL: THE VULNERABILITY OF THE ELDERLY DURING HURRICANE KATRINA: WHAT WENT WRONG AND HOW MAJOR LOSES COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.

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PROJECT PROPOSAL: THE VULNERABILITY OF THE ELDERLY DURING HURRICANE KATRINA: WHAT WENT WRONG AND HOW MAJOR LOSES COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.

1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDYSocial disasters resulting from natural phenomenon as hurricanes have often recorded an aftermath trail of sorrow from lost of lives, properties and a traumatized mental capacity for especially the direct victims. In contemporary US, the occurrence of Hurricane Katrina in the 29th of August 2005, left many story to tell, especially with most hit state of New Orleans and its neighboring states like Louisiana and Mississippi. Those greatly affected in these areas were the elderly and poor. Due to their status in the social stratification, most of the elderly and poor were unable to embark on a quick evacuation from the scene of the hurricane. And after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina many people in this social stratum recorded many deaths, resulting from hunger, ailment and lack of shelter to keep them warm. Fussell (2005), have it that, “Low income residents had fewer choices with respect to how to prepare for the imminent arrival of Katrina. Since the storm was at the end of the month and many low-income residents of New Orleans live from paycheck to paycheck, economic resources for evacuating were particularly scarce.


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