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Handling of Household Flammables by Elderly Dwelling in the Community: General Survey on Actual Status; The Kurihara Project
Takada J, Meguro K*, Ishikawa H, Ouchi Y, Nakatsuka M and The Kurihara Project Members
Geriatric Behavioral Neurology, Tohoku University, CYRIC, Japan
- *Corresponding Author:
- Kenichi Meguro, MD
Geriatric Behavioral Neurology, Tohoku University
CYRIC, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, IDAC, Sendai, 980-8575, Japan
Tel: 81-22-717-7359
Fax: 81-22-717-7339
E-mail: k-meg@umin.ac.jp
Received date: July 18, 2016; Accepted date: August 19, 2016; Published date: August 27, 2016
Citation: Takada J, Meguro K, Ishikawa H, Ouchi Y, Nakatsuka M, et al. (2016) Handling of Household Flammables by Elderly Dwelling in the Community: General Survey on Actual Status; The Kurihara Project. J Community Med Health Educ 6:463. doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000463
Copyright: © 2016 Takada J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background: Handling errors with household flammables, such as pan burning, may result in serious accidents. However, there have only been a few reports on the actual status of fire accidents, regardless of whether they were small or serious.
Methods: 590 residents aged 75 years or older in Kurihara, northern Japan, consisted of 223 Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) 0 (healthy), 294 CDR 0.5 (very mild dementia), and 73 CDR 1+ (dementia) participants. The family members living with the subject were asked about the actual status over the past 3 years: Handling of a heating appliance in winter, handling of household flammable items other than a heating appliance in daily life, and accidents and failures related to fire.
Results: We found that 93.1% of the subjects operated heating appliances by themselves. The rate was high in all CDR groups, and that in the CDR 1+group was 79.7%. Furthermore, the use rate of IH (Induction Heating) appliance was quite low. According to the free descriptions, the accidents were caused by a decrease in attention/ executive function and the ability to predict risks.
Conclusion: Their preference of a cooking stove rather than IH was probably due to easier switch system. The risk of rubbish burning has not been well established. Rubbish collection is quite a new service in some regions, and there may be a big gap between the service and their memory of the past habit.
