Community Safety and Social Policy

You will select 3 groups or individuals in the community who are at particular risk to fire in their home.

For each group, you will consider:-

1) The nature of the risk;

2) The underlying and root causes of the problem;

3) Propose immediate, longer term and political solutions bearing in mind any financial restrictions that may be pertinent within your country or region.

** Relate the paper to cause of suffocating more than fire itself.

** who is most vulnerable to this risk? (elders of age 65 and above, children , etc.)

** Smoking in bed rooms, old furniture’s, etc.

** mention statistics? what is the percentage of the deaths the past year?

** Talk about UK standards of fire and safety for residential equipment’s.(like furniture’s must not be very old, etc).

** elders and children doesn’t have enough knowledge and must be educated.

** Total Word Count = 1500 words.

** In-text citation and References using Harvard Style.

Answer preview

The elderly are at a much higher risk of being a fatality in a house fire as opposed to younger people.  The risk of an elderly person becoming a fatality or suffering serious injuries in a house fire is 2.5 times higher than that of young adults.  In most cases, the elderly are victims of house fires since they are mostly sleeping when the house fires happen.  Most of the elderly are at risk of house fires since their mental facilities are not as strong as they were before due to diseases like dementia and Alzheimer’s.  An elderly person also is slow to react to things which means that he/she might not escape quickly from a house on fire. Because of age, the five senses of smell, touch, vision, hearing, and taste are weak in the elderly persons and this can affect their ability to respond to a house fire. An elderly person who under medication can also have challenges responding to a house fire (Della-Giustina, D. E., 2014). The prevailing economic conditions can also make it impossible for an elderly person to afford to live in a house that is a fire risk or make them use equipment that is dangerous that could lead to house fires. In most cases, the elderly also live alone and have no one who can rescue them from a house fire.

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