Safe Elderly

Indicators for Safe Elderly (Swedish pdf)

Safe Elderly in a Safe Community setting have:

1. An infrastructure based on partnership and collaborations, governed by a group of managers, elderly and their voluntary organisations representatives, technical staff , and safety
professionals that is responsible for safety promotion for elderly people; The group should be chaired by a local administration representative with a Voluntary Organisation representative as a co-chair;

2. Safe Elderly policies developed by the Group in a Safe Community setting;

3. Long-term, sustainable operational programs covering both genders, all old age groups, environments, and situations;

4. Programs that target high-risk groups and environments, and programs that promote safety for vulnerable groups;

5. Programs that are based on the available evidence;

6. Programs that document the frequency and causes of injuries – both non-intentional (accidents) and intentional (violence and self-inflicted);

7. Evaluation measures to assess their policies, programs, processes and the effects of change;

8. Ongoing participation in Safe Elderly networks – at community, national and international levels.


Dept. of Public Health Sciences
Division of Social Medicine
Stockholm, Sweden
www.phs.ki.se/csp
January 2012

These indicators have been developed by the
International Safe Communities movement with the objective of making the world a better
and safer place in which to live, work and play.

Please read more about us on www.phs.ki.se/csp
and give us your opinions to improve our work
to leif.svanstrom@ki.se

or moa.sundstrom@ki.se

Specially for Safe Elderly issues contact:
Dr. Mirjana Milankov
drmirjana.milankov@gmail.com

Dr. Tommy Rosenberg
tommysrosenberg@gmail.com