Special Needs Populations, Evacuation Purposes
Special Needs Populations, Evacuation Purposes :
"People with special needs are defined by the Governor [TX] as those who are not capable of evacuating themselves. As the modes of transportation needed to evacuate these populations vary, the Task Force further classified the special needs populations into four main categories: (1) Hospital Patients (2) Nursing Home Patients (3) Home Healthcare Clients, including Halfway Houses (4) Economically Unable to Evacuate, otherwise unable to self-evacuate, including elderly (not but infirmed), homeless, mentally impaired, chronic substance abusers, international visitors, and those without access to their own vehicle or otherwise financially unable to evacuate". (Houston-Galveston Area Evacuation and Response Task Force. Recommendations Report. 2006, p. 12)
