120124 on older people

• Older people play an important role in societies, are vulnerable and have frequently been forgotten and remain invisible during relief operations.
• The demographics are changing the population distributions world wide and older people are becoming and increasing fraction of the people affected by crisis.
• Their diseases and particular needs are different from the classical pattern of your populations in poor tropical settings.
• They are affected by chronic non communicable conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular illnesses, osteo-articular conditions, metabolic syndrome.
• Most of those conditions are never "cured" but managed.
• Physical and mental disabilities related to age, restricted mobility, dietary restrictions become issues.

As an example, crisis in the middle east have a very low component of communicable diseases diseases and non communicable diseases in older people are the bulk of action.

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