The Over-60 Blackout Plan

In the 2021 Texas blackout, most of the people who died were 60 or older. Age changes the plan. The body makes and keeps less heat, there are more medicines and devices to think about, and more people live alone.

This short plan is for you, or for the parent you worry about.

INSIDE

- A check-in system: who calls whom, and what happens when nobody answers

- Staying warm, and the signs of hypothermia that are easy to miss after 60

- Staying cool in a summer outage

- Medicines: the list, the questions to ask your pharmacist now, and medicines that need the fridge

- Oxygen, CPAP and other devices that need power: what to set up before the outage

- Falls in the dark

- Staying reachable

- The scams that target older people after a disaster

- Fill-in cards: medicines, doctors, devices, contacts and the check-in schedule

WHAT YOU GET

1 PDF file (19 pages), available right after purchase.

Independent educational guide. It does not replace your doctor, your pharmacist or 911.