Living alone in the elderly safety hazards
Living alone in the elderly safety hazards, safety hazards in fact, there are many aspects of our lives, especially in the face of living alone in the elderly children, etc., for safety hazards we must pay attention to avoid harm, the following understanding of the elderly living alone safety hazards.
1, most of the elderly living alone have difficulty in action, poor memory, deafness, slow reaction of the mind and other inconveniences, often due to careless fire, bed smoking and improper use of electric appliances and other fires, which can easily lead to a small fire killed the accident.
2, the elderly love to collect old things, miscellaneous, so the habit of placement will affect their safety escape. Whether at home or in the hallway, it should be kept tidy and clear.
3, some of the elderly living alone like to use open fire heating, and do not pay attention to the fire source near the storage of the items are flammable, combustible items. There are also elderly people burning incense at home to worship Buddha, Buddha Hall, incense burner near the pile of combustible offerings, etc., are a great fire hazard.
4, most of the elderly love thrift, home electrical wiring and electrical appliances to hold the "new three years, the old three years, sewing and patching and three years" idea, electrical appliances occurring aging or to the end of the period refused to discard the replacement.
What should we do for our elderly parents?
1, often home to see
Nothing often home to see, if the children out of work to go back to visit the elderly on a regular basis, for the elderly to check the home of the fire hazards, for their safety to do a good job.
2, regular check
The elderly house electrical appliances, wires should be regularly checked, updated in time, to prevent because of the aging of electrical wiring and equipment caused by fire.
3, regular removal of debris
Regularly help the elderly to remove the debris piled up in the home, and at the same time to persuade the elderly not to pile up debris in the home, do not burn incense in the home to worship Buddha, do not lie down and smoke, so as to avoid the occurrence of fire carelessness.
4, more accompanied by the care of the physically challenged . The old man
home if you have mobility problems, long-term bedridden elderly, to have someone to look after, try not to let the elderly alone at home.
5, explain the fire safety knowledge
To often give the elderly to explain the family's daily use of electricity safety methods, to improve the elderly's fire safety awareness. Tell the elderly, in the event of a fire, the first choice to self-help escape, do not blindly extinguish the fire alone, do not covet the home belongings, timely call for help and alarm.
Security risks of the elderly living alone 2 The security risks of the elderly living alone has become a social problem. Recently, the South China Morning Post microblogging public number released "Painful! A city in Guangxi found three people died in their own homes for two consecutive days, we must pay attention to the article again triggered people's sympathy and concern for the elderly living alone. Such examples are extreme, but the security risks of the elderly living alone can not be avoided. The idea of raising children for old age is one that people have relied on for a long time, however, with population mobility and changing attitudes towards life, the reality of raising children for old age is slowly being shaken. Nowadays, few people think that the elderly do not live with their children is a child unfilial, "live separately", is regarded as the elderly elderly concept of progress. Undeniably, some elderly living alone is indeed the children of the elderly independent, free life needs respect, however, the elderly living alone security risks is also an indisputable fact. The body of the elderly in a sudden situation is an uncontrollable phenomenon, do not accident has been, once the accident is often caught off guard. To solve the problem of the elderly living alone, we need to take practical action in all aspects of society. More nursing homes is certainly a good way, however, as children, do their best to shorten the distance with the elderly life, is the safest and most effective way. Compared with the life of the elderly, the concept of life, different habits are not really anything, after all, home care is the most suitable for the elderly psychological and physiological needs of the elderly model. A community with management, service, and security functions can map out the situation of the elderly living alone in the district, and with the help of multiple forces to provide thoughtful services, the risk of the elderly living alone can also be greatly reduced. To face up to the safety risks of the elderly living alone, the children, to avoid the "children want to raise and parents do not wait for" the injury; to the public, to solve the "when we grow old how to do" the worry. Emphasis on fire safety for the elderly living alone On the night of March 16, Sichuan Province, Leshan City, Ebian County, a sixties old man home kitchen fire, due to the delay in the best time to report to the police, the home is full of weeds, firewood and other flammable materials, resulting in four houses were burned, but fortunately, the old man was rescued from the sleep in time. Fortunately, the sleeping old man was rescued in time. It is understood that the old man's children are working abroad, usually live alone. Firefighters will extinguish the fire, the old man set up a temporary living tent before leaving; similar cases also occurred in Changsha Kaifu District, January 4, 4:00 a.m., the district of Junyue Xiangdi district a residential house out of the smoke and fire. Firefighters arrived to break down the door and found two old people in the house. Unfortunately, the two old men died after rescue. According to neighbors, the two old man did not live with their children, weekdays seem to be healthy, often in the area of square dancing ...... alone in the home of the elderly suffered a fire case from time to time, in which the fire safety issues should cause people to pay attention to and pay attention to. The old man is old, slow reaction, legs and feet are not nimble, safety awareness is relatively weak, living alone in life, fire safety hazards. The main performance of the elderly life is more frugal, used to waste cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and other flammable items piled up in the home; can not discard, replace broken old appliances; Individuals like to lie down on the sofa or bed smoking, coupled with a lack of fire safety supervision, some of the trivialities of life can only be done in person, but due to the action of the more delayed, the fire cooking, electricity and gas, Fire heating and many other aspects of the slightest negligence will lead to the occurrence of fire accidents; the elderly found that the fire alarm consciousness is relatively weak, want to put out their own first, wait until the fire can not be controlled will think of the alarm, coupled with excessive nervousness and dialect communication and other factors affect the location of the fire, the nature of the fire can not be said, all aspects of the fire delayed to put out the time. On the one hand, as children, should always urge their parents to pay attention to fire safety, and timely help elders around the home to eliminate potential safety hazards. To take the initiative to arrange for personnel to regularly check the home gas pipeline for the elderly, clean up the stove and flue oil; to give the elderly home equipped with basic fire safety facilities and equipment, such as fire extinguishers, escape masks, independent smoke detectors; for smoking habits of the elderly, the elderly should be repeatedly reminded not to lie down on the bed or the sofa smoking; To teach the elderly in a timely manner to the knowledge of the fire alarm rescue escape, maximize The first step is to improve the self-protection ability of the elderly. On the other hand, the relevant departments, villages (neighborhoods), property management departments, etc., should organize regular visits to help the elderly living alone to clean up safety hazards, repair and replace unqualified or damaged electrical appliances, teach the elderly the correct use of fire, electricity, gas, oil, remind the fire safety precautions to eliminate the source of the elderly home safety hazards. Remember the lessons learned, strengthen the elderly living alone family fire prevention, so that the elderly safe and healthy to spend their twilight years, we need to *** with and active efforts!