Hurricane Katrina Hits Elders

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"Most probably, I don't have a home anymore," Bill Higginbotham, a 91-year-old retired carpenter who built his home along the Back Bay area of Biloxi, Miss., told Canadian Television (CTV). "I wanted to live, but after this I don't want to live no more," he said.

In New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina survivor Frank Mills described his struggle to cling to the room of his boarding house as the water rose, after two elderly residents got trapped inside. He said that when a third elder tried climbing to safety, "He was kind of on the edge of the roof, catching his breath. Next thing I knew, he came floating past me."

Also in Louisiana, according to the website of the American …