NFPA Journal - Summer 2022 - 74

SAFETY EDUCATION
A Little Help
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As the number of people aged 65 and over continues to rise across
North America, falls and fires affecting that demographic-as well as
related deaths and injuries-have skyrocketed. NFPA and its partners
are taking a new approach to try to stem the tide. By Jesse Roman
n November 2019, about four months before COVID
sent most of the United States into lockdown, a diverse
group of professionals gathered in a conference room at
NFPA headquarters outside of Boston to discuss a different
kind of health emergency: the growing threat of fire and
accidental falls among adults 65 and older.
Almost all of those seated around the conference table-
including firefighters, elder care providers, occupational
therapists, researchers, and public safety educators-were veterans
of NFPA's Remembering When™
of the Saskatoon Fire Department in Saskatchewan, Canada,
one of the Remembering When users I contacted to get a
sense of whether the program has helped reduce falls. " What
we've found in our community is that falls just keep going
up, usually by about 150 per year. "
That seems to be the case in nearly every municipality
initiative, an educational
program aimed at helping older adults reduce their risk of
experiencing a fire or fall. Collectively, the assembled educators
had spent thousands of hours delivering the program's safety
messages, presenting to senior groups, handing out materials,
and visiting residences to check for things like working smoke
alarms and to point out and correct dangerous tripping hazards.
And yet, by nearly every metric, both falls and fires among
seniors are worse now than they were a decade ago.
" I am happy to share my statistics, but I don't think it's
going to tell the story you are hoping for, " said Dori Krahn,
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that tracks such statistics. Another commonality is that
local fire and EMS departments, which comprise the bulk
of Remembering When's educators, are feeling the strain.
According to the National Fire Incident Reporting System
(NFIRS) and NFPA survey data, " lift assist " or " invalid assist "
calls increased 35 percent from 2014 to 2017. Lift-assist calls
now outnumber structure fire calls by a good margin at both
rural and urban departments.
When Ashby Anderson, a sergeant at the Louisville Fire
Department's fire prevention and fire education bureau, ran
her department's stats, even she seemed surprised to learn
that 10 percent of all the department's runs last year were
to aid people who had fallen. " And we aren't even the first
department called in these incidents, " she said. " Louisville

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