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Ageing safely
— protecting an ageing population from the risk of fire in the home | | Corporate Author | Chief Fire Officers Association - CFOA |
| Publisher | CFOA Publications, Tamworth, December 2011 |
| Pages | 26 pp |
| Source | www.cfoa.org.uk |
| Keywords | Fire protection ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | This is the United Kingdom's Fire & Rescue Services' (FRS) first national strategy aimed at protecting older people from deaths and injuries caused by fire in the home. The strategy aims to. stabilise the number of fatalities and serious injuries resulting from fire in the rising population aged 50+ over the next 6 years; improve access and take up of services provided to those people who experience trauma as a result of being involved in a fire to match the rate of increase in the population aged 50+; and ensure that engagement with older people is an integral element of the process of evaluating the impact of the strategy. It sets out 10 objectives to help achieve this: assist in the prevention of accidental fires through the provision of interventions specifically targeted at those aged 50+; prevent accidental fires by working in partnerships to provide help and guidance where it is most needed; prevent fire through the provision and dissemination of information, advice and guidance; continue to build meaningful and productive relationships with the local community; protect older people from accidental fires by ensuring they have access to the most appropriate assistive technology; protect older people who live in residential care homes, care homes with nursing, and sheltered accommodation, through advising on, and enforcing fire safety measures; work in ways that respond to diverse individual needs which may include culture, religion and language and in ways that ensure equality of opportunity; respond to the incidents of fires and extinguish them quickly, effectively and efficiently; be responsive to and assist people to recover from their experience of fire; and learn from each occasion FRS are called upon in an emergency, to further refine this strategy and to define robust quality improvement systems. Appendices include background information in relation to the context of recommendations made; also references and statistics. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-160205243 B |
| Classmark | OS: 583 |
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