How climate change affects the elderly in France

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Age and Aging, grade: 77.3, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: Climatic changes are caused by substantial alterations of weather conditions in the global world. These changes are examined by measuring the significant changes observed in the distribution pattern of the weather such as precipitation effects and weather temperatures that appear for over several years. Global warming is the core factor that causes changes in the climate due to the increase in emission of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. France has experienced climatic changes such as the heat wave whereby the weather in France becomes unusually warmer which eventually causes the death of the elderly individuals. Firstly, studies state that the adverse climatic changes are caused by certain variables such as societal elements and contextual factors that are closely connected to impact hazardous weather conditions.