Mortality In The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
In the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave, mortality was related to living alone in that living along doubled a person’s chance of not surviving the heat wave. On the other had, and form of social connection lessened the chance of dying. Some of the main reasons that this relationship exists are because most of the people living along were older people and increasingly people with poor mobility were living alone. Living alone as an aging person was thought to be the ideal way for them to live because it gave them independence and a degree of control. However, this also isolated older people more from social contact and support networks, which lessened their chances of surviving the heat wave. Seniors living alone also dealt more poorly with acute health