An emergency shelter in a home for the elderly who require care

• YAMAGUCHI Kazuya

  Sabo Frontier Foundation

• MIKI Yoichi

  Sabo Frontier Foundation

• TAKANASHI Kazuyuki

  Sabo Frontier Foundation

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 介護老人福祉施設における避難事例の紹介と課題
• カイゴ ロウジン フクシ シセツ ニ オケル ヒナン ジレイ ノ ショウカイ ト カダイ

Abstract

In recent years, a number of disasters in Japan have affected the elderly. A disaster warning and evacuation system for vulnerable people is important. We studied a case in which elderly people took shelter from a sediment-related disaster in Okoku-en, in the city of Nanjyo (Sasiki town, Simajiri-gun), in Okinawa, on 17 June 2005, and studied the problems that emerged with respect to a warning and evacuation system in a home for the elderly. We found that it is hazardous trying to shelter elderly persons while it is raining, and that prolonged use of a shelter requires cooperation with other institutions in that the administrative body must play a central role, and prolonged use of a shelter is expensive. Therefore, we propose that disaster-planning and welfare organizations should design shelters for institutions housing the elderly for use during sediment-related disasters, thus reducing the expenses associated with other forms of necessary emergency shelter.

Journal

• Sabo Gakkaishi

  Sabo Gakkaishi 60 (6), 28-32, 2008

  Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering

Keywords

• Iandslide
• warning and evacuation system
• vulnerable people from disasters

Details

• CRID: 1390282679043766656
• NII Article ID: 130004102230
• NII Article ID: 10021228233
• NII Book ID: AN0012035X
• DOI: 10.11475/sabo1973.60.6_28
• NDL BIB ID: 9448603
• ISSN: 02868385
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I9448603
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