Distributed databases as a inventory of vulnerable people in Paris
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Due to the very hot summers in the last years many old people in Paris suffered hard and even died. The city of Paris therefore came up with a special database for registration of vulnerable people. In this database, people can register themselves and in case of heat waves in the summer there will be a regular check every 48 hours with a question and answer scheme to be done on every phone call. This check is very important since many people died also because they were alone and nobody checked on them, which is a general problem in the months July and August in Paris, when the city is almost dead with most of its citizens being on vacation in the countryside. If the answers to the questions don’t fit to the scheme, there will be either a social or a medical intervention, depending on the kind of answers. If there is no answer to the phone call at all, there will be also a check. If there is any kind of danger, relatives are contacted as soon as possible. This system was a reaction to a great number of deaths in the summer of 2002 and already worked well the summer after.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
