Older Adults' Environmental and Physiological Responses During a Montréal Heatwave

Luc Souilla's dataset captures indoor environmental conditions, perceptual, physiological, and behavioral responses from 26 older adults during the June 2024 heatwave in Montréal. Data were collected one week before, during, and one week after the event using the HeatSuite monitoring kit. The dataset is organized into separate folders for environmental, physiological, perceptual, and baseline data, each with its own codebook.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between indoor temperature and physiological stress based on concurrent environmental and oral temperature measurements.
• Analyzing behavioral adaptations to heat stress based on the described behavioral response data.
• Studying temporal patterns of thermal perception before, during, and after a heatwave event.
• Assessing correlations between participant characteristics and physiological vulnerability to heat.

Strengths

• Data from 26 participants provides a focused cohort for in-depth analysis.
• Multi-faceted data collection includes environmental, physiological, perceptual, and behavioral variables.
• Temporal coverage includes a baseline period, the heatwave event, and a post-event period for comparison.
• Data have been processed through multiple code pipelines to ensure quality and consistency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from codebooks after download.
• The sample size of 26 older adults from social housing may limit generalizability to other populations.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Collected from 26 older adults in social housing using the HeatSuite monitoring kit.

Time Range

June 2024, specifically covering June 18–20, 2024, plus one week before and after.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 04:17:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Island of Montréal, Canada.