Current learning strategies in fire evacuation for seniors and people with disabilities in private seniors' residences and long-term care homes : a scoping review

© 2024 Thériault, Blanchet, Vincent, Feillou, Ruel and Morales..

Current strategies for teaching evacuation methods in private seniors' residences (PSR) and long-term care (LTCH) homes may pose risks to people with disabilities (PWD) and seniors' physical and psychological health. This study aimed to address the following questions: (1) Which are the current fire evacuation learning strategies used with PWD or seniors? (2) What are the barriers and facilitators for PWD and seniors' during fire evacuation and learning strategies in PSR and LTCH? (3) What is the existing equipment that could be used with PWD seniors?. A scoping review of grey and scientific literature was done in six databases and Google scholar. Additional information was found on Québec government websites. This review identified 13 scientific papers and 22 documents. Twenty barriers (personal = 9, environmental = 11), and 14 facilitators (personal = 4, environmental = 10) were extracted. The current fire evacuation learning strategies currently used can be grouped into three categories: drills; training; promotion of a fire safety plan. Six types of evacuation equipment were found; however, their use has been scarcely documented. Safety for seniors during fire evacuation is still an important issue to be improved. Increasing awareness and creating new practices and tools that consider the strengths and difficulties of seniors seems to be a promising avenue for improving evacuation.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences - 5(2024) vom: 15., Seite 1305180

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thériault, William [VerfasserIn]
Blanchet, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Vincent, Claude [VerfasserIn]
Feillou, Isabelle [VerfasserIn]
Ruel, Jean [VerfasserIn]
Morales, Ernesto [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Evacuation
Fire
Journal Article
Long-term care home
Private seniors’ residences
Review
Seniors

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Date Revised 08.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fresc.2024.1305180

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369399692