Extreme heat stress will cause health problems for up to 250 million more people over the age of 69 in 2050 than now, reports climate economist Giacomo Falchetta of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg. This is due to rising temperatures and an increasingly older population.
Older adults are more susceptible to hyperthermia (overheating), Falchetta and colleagues wrote in the journal ‘Nature Communications’: In addition, many common health problems such as cardiovascular disease are worsened by exposure to heat. But in 2050 you will have to experience on average twice as many hot days of more than 37.5 degrees Celsius worldwide than now, namely twenty instead of ten. In addition, not only is the temperature rising, but also the number of elderly people.
“The world population is aging at an unprecedented pace,” the researchers said. “The number of people over 60 is expected to approximately double by the middle of the 21st century,” from 1.1 billion in 2021 to almost 2.1 billion in 2050. This could be a “significant additional need for social and health care services,” the scientists explain.
Source: Krone
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