Residential fires and elderly people – multidisciplinary success factors for reducing fatalities and severely injured

Residential fires and elderly people – multidisciplinary success factors for reducing fatalities and severely injured

Significant differences in the risk of death from fire have been shown to exist in regards to different age groups, socio-economic groups and geographi-cal areas. One group that repeatedly is shown to be particularly at risk is older people, a group that also constitutes the age group that percentagewise is increasing the most in society in regards to popu-lation size. Therefore, in order to reach the vision zero within fire, this group should be given special priority in the preventive work.