Clarifying the Situation of the Victims with Special needs on Evacuation Site Using the 7 Livelihood Domain Model

Abstract

The Victims with special needs require the support for going through each phase; 1) move to evacuation site, 2) live in evacuation shelters, 3) live in temporary housings, 4) rebuild the life. The final destination of those supports must be the self-reliance efforts to realize rebuild the life after disaster; however, the process is never planned as the whole. Japan Association of Certified Care Workers sent the professional volunteers to the disaster-stricken area of the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007. We interviewed some of them to build the hypothesis and surveyed 50 of them to clarify the situation on the evacuation site. We also found the 7 Livelihood Domain JACCW Model could be used as the framework to support the victims with special needs after the disaster.