This document is about the guidelines for the development of disaster relief manuals for people in need.
This document is a planning guideline issued by Saga Prefecture (February 2005) for municipalities that are drafting their own manuals for supporting people who need help during a disaster. It explains the purpose of the guideline and its role as a drafting aid, then describes who is covered: elderly people living alone, bedridden or with dementia, persons with physical, intellectual or mental disabilities, autistic persons, patients with intractable diseases or on dialysis, and infants.
The main body covers advance measures such as identifying the people concerned and managing their information, setting up information transmission and evacuation guidance systems with neighborhood associations, welfare commissioners, volunteers and welfare facilities, drawing up evacuation support plans, preparing shelters and welfare shelters, and raising disaster awareness. It continues with emergency response measures and with support for persons with mental disabilities and for patients with intractable diseases or on dialysis, and ends with reference materials including a sample support plan and a questionnaire survey. This manual is written in Japanese.
The guideline covers people living at home: elderly people living alone, bedridden or with dementia, persons with physical, intellectual or mental disabilities, autistic persons, patients with intractable diseases or on dialysis, and infants.
The guidelines serve as a framework for municipalities to create disaster support manuals for vulnerable persons early.
The guidelines target elderly living alone, bedridden elderly, dementia elderly, physically disabled, intellectually disabled, mentally disabled, autistic persons, intractable disease/dialysis patients, and infants.
The guidelines include nine reference materials such as the status of disaster support requiring persons, a ledger, personal information protection ordinance, model evacuation support plan, disability-specific preparations, evacuation stickers, emergency medical notebook, survey results, and committee establishment guidelines.