高齢者と東日本大震災

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  • コウレイシャ ト ヒガシニホン ダイシンサイ
  • Elderly People and the Great East Japan Disaster of March 11, 2011

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More than 18,500 people were killed or went missing in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Pacific coastal areas of the Tohoku region. In addition the people at the Hutaba areas of Fukushima were become evacuees, hit by the meltdowns at Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant of Tokyo Electric Co.. This article documents the disaster-hit people, especially focusing on the elderly people because the mortality rate of them are very high. Many elderly people lost their lives by Tsunami. Survivors of the Tsunami, however, had to meet the death at emergent refuges under the poor living conditions and the Tohoku region' s biting cold. Especially in Hutaba radiation-tainted areas, elderly residents of nursing facilities had to flee to find temporary facilities at distant prefecture and to travel more than 300 km in buses without certain directions. These situations made the mortality rate of elderly residents jump up nearly 2.4 or 2.7 times after they evacuated the facilities. Two years after the Disaster many elderly people are placed in temporary nursing facilities far away from home towns. Sometimes they have to live their lives without any human contacts from family members or relatives outside of their home prefecture. These poor living conditions weaken their daily living activities skills. The death is still continuing two years after the Disaster.

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