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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2012.26.3.049

A Study on Improving Role of Firefighting Service Toward an Aging Society  

Kang, Chang-Gon (Graduate School of Disaster Prevention, Kangwon National Univ.)
Lee, Si-Young (Graduate School of Disaster Prevention, Kangwon National Univ.)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.26, no.3, 2012 , pp. 49-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is aimed to increase the fire-fighting manpower utilization and the increasing of its services in aging society. Due to continuous improvement of living standards and development of medical technology, the elderly population rate is being increased and it brings rapid progresses of aging society. Therefore, as a fire-fighting organization which is responsible for safety from various disasters, they should grasp comprehensively and systematically exact status of weak person from disaster in perspective of it with conjunction of all concerned department and at the same time proceed to speedy move as well as determine the appropriate emergency measures. In order to do this, safe life education for elderly people and the comprehensive measures of home security should be taken by transforming the policy from particular object-oriented policy to demand-driven policy. And through the expansion of one one nine services such as using grandeur of powerful IT nation out of old-fashioned promotion way, they should provide fire-fighting service for convenient and comfortable life of elderly people after retirement. A consideration of the elderly people is the best way to penetrate a advancement fire-fighting in aging society.
Keywords
Aging society; The increasing of service; The weak on disaster; A policy about demend; A life of ease in the aged;
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