Current States and Challenges of Disaster Measures in Nursing Home-care Agencies of Okayama Prefecture

Abstract

The purpose of this survey was to clarify the current states and challenges of disaster measures in nursing home-care agencies of Okayama prefecture. The subjects were the administrators of nursing homecare agencies. As a result, 61 administrators (58.7%) responded with valid answers. The current states of disaster measures were as follows : 1) Manual prevalence of disaster measures of this survey was 45.9%, lower than the national survey of Japan (69.0%); 2) High-priority users were persons who lived alone, highly depended on medical care, or elderly households; 3) Only 38.3% of the agencies cooperated with the local agencies of disaster measures. As future challenges of disaster measures, it is necessary 1) to create and review a standard manual of disaster measures and make simulation training among the station staff; 2) to consider concrete measures among the staff, high-priority users and their families; 3) to consider morecooperation with the local agencies of disaster measures.