Stay at home – Crisis Management and Preparedness in a Nursing home by using a Digital Twin.
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Corresponding Author:
Ingrid Svetoft
Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies Malmö University Sweden
ingrid.svetoft@mau.se
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According to strategies for the new Total Defense, civil society needs to build resilience to various types disasters as loss of societal important infrastructure, fires and pandemics. The technological development has created both opportunities but also vulnerability, since we are dependent on electricity and communication systems. Municipal activities must be organized so that societal important activities can be maintained. To make the civil defense work, an overview of the organization and resources, the division of responsibilities, planning and collaboration is required. For particularly vulnerable groups, extra care is needed on how to handle crisis. For elderly people municipalities offers different kind of retirement homes as Sheltered housing or Nursing homes. These also belong to the municipality's own operations and are therefore subject what is stated in the legal text to function even in the event of a crisis. For the elderly and care-dependent population, mobilization and relocation become difficult. The municipalities' Risk and Vulnerability Analysis shows that there are major differences in the degree of preparedness in internal collaboration between administrations and companies. Personnel need the resources and knowledge to carry out their caring work even in the event of a crisis. How can a model for residing and maintaining care in a Nursing home be structured by using a scenario exercise?
Crisis management can be secured together with actors responsible for maintaining the safety for the elderly’s home, by stating a “Staying at home” scenario. With theoretical scenarios collaboration and exchange of experiences can be discussed when sharing the visualized wholeness. Digital tools for supervising vital technical conditions in the building can be visualized in a Digital Twin. People responsible for and those who are working and living in the building can also get a Digital Twin. These identities describe their responsibilities, activities and needs, to for see and prepare for when extraordinary measures must be taken.
This paper will describe how to manage the function of a municipal Nursing home by using a scenario exercise. Different actors will describe activities and needs for obtaining safety and care for one week. By using a Digital twin to identify weaknesses in the technical supply system and management organization measures for preparedness can be taken. This can also enable a full-scale exercise with figurants. Documentation for activities, supplies and how to use technical back-up systems can then be used as a manual for preparedness in different types of building and functions.
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