Editorial, April 2023, International Journal of Older People Nursing: Taking the bad news with the good: The climate crisis and care for older people
“As healthcare worsens the climate crisis, it is threatening the health of the people in our care now and dramatically increasing the number of people who will need our care in the future. We are endangering health and well-being while we seek to heal. Pause with us and think about what that means and how vital it is that we act. Current healthcare practices are unsustainable and risk long-term damage that cannot be undone if we do not act now to transform how we do what we do...”
Baumbusch, J., Blakey, E., Carapellotti, A., Dohmen, M., Kagan, S.H. & Melendez-Torres, G.J. (2021). This alarm is not a drill: we call gerontological nurses to act on climate change. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 16(5), e12421.
“As healthcareThe world is contending with what in American medical dramas would be called a Code Blue. But this crisis is no fiction, it will not end after an hour of livestreaming. We, nurses, know too well that climate change is not a myth nor is it simply some distant looming crisis.“