Residents' Evacuation Capability in Buildings

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housing.
Risk of resistance. There are many residents especially in group-residental units who
are expected to refuse to leave their flat or room when evacuation is necessary. This fact
demands a greater effort from the staff.
% No risk of resistance
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
Some small risk of resistance
Risk of resistance
Service
flats
Old age
homes
Group
dwellings
Figure 5. Risk of resistance. Percentage distribution in various types of care housing.
Need for help. As data are processed every rated person«s data are transformed to a
need of assistance. The need of assistance can be graded from 'needing no assistance',
'needing a helping hand' (e.g. to wake up or find the way out), 'needing assistance from
one staff member for the whole evacuation' (e.g. to get out of bed, manage the
wheelchair etc.) to 'needing assistance from two staff' (when the resident is unable to
manage the stairs). If a person is rated to need assistance for more than one reason, the
reason requiring help from most numbers of staff is decisive.
Compaired with other forms of care housing a greater percentage of the residents are
expected to manage on their own when evacuating blocks of service flats. The reason
for needing help from one staff member is very often the stair problem in multistoreyed
blocks of service flats and old people«s homes. In group-residential units,
resistance is most often the reason for needing assistance.
Residents Evacuation Capability in Buildings…., Gun Hallberg, Domotic Lab. KTH, Stockholm 1993