New study explores how people with schizophrenia experience heat inside their homes

The 2021 heat dome claimed at least 619 lives in B.C. and revealed how unevenly extreme heat can affect different communities. Later research found that people living with schizophrenia—who make up about one per cent of the population— ac c ounted for nearly 16 per cent of those deaths . Dr. Liv Yoon , assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology in the UBC faculty of education, has been…