A new study by the nonprofit news service Climate Central presents another grim outlook for the elderly in South Florida: more nursing homes and assisted living facilities at risk from flooding than other coastal states.
Miami Herald Homero Giviria, 76, walks past a flooded Aventura apartment on his way to work in December 2019.
When Hurricane Irma roared across South Florida in September 2017, winds cut off power to the elderly residents at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, leaving them in suffocating heat for more than three days.
As rooms in the 152-bed facility heated up, residents began having trouble breathing. Their temperatures soared. Fourteen people died, including Pedro Franco’s parents.
“It didn’t have to be that way,” said Franco, who sued the facility for negligence. It was 100 percent avoidable.”
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NAPLES â In early January, the marketing team of The Glenview at Pelican Bay went into residentsâ rooms to film an emotional video. Residents of the retirement community, wearing âGlenview Strongâ T-shirts, shared words of encouragement in hopes of easing vaccine apprehension among the staff members.
âPlease everybody, take the two COVID shots,â said Jim Payne.
âItâll be nice if everybody at the Glenview, people who live here and people who work here, have had the vaccine,â Mike Levy said. âThat way we will have a coronavirus-free home. And all of us can be more relaxed and enjoy things more.â