2021 Volume 23 Issue Paper Pages 15-24
In this paper, we surveyed Mabi town, part of Kurashiki city, which was affected by a flood disaster in 2018. Our survey is a comparison between persons with disabilities who died and persons with disabilities who were helped. In addition, we surveyed the support of welfare professionals and the support of residents. We discovered that persons who needed to be protected during the disaster could not take refuge on the second floor of their houses and neighboring houses without outside support. Furthermore, we found that no person could escape the disaster by them self. It is essential to have a relationship with neighbors (mutual-support) and cognition of the disaster risk (self-support) in order to leave no one behind. The individual evacuation plan (publicsupport) must motivates further work on self-support and mutual-support.
