The elderly in countries that have socialized medicine do not fair so well. They are among the last in the list of priority spending, falling WAY behind well-child, prenatal, and other younger, more successfully treated populations. If a frail elderly person is already in a compromised medical state because the nanny state has determined they are "too old" and their treatment doesn't pass the "cost-benefit" test, then they may very well succumb readily to a heat wave - even one not considered extreme in most areas of the world.