Past disasters, such as the floods in 2013 and 2021, or the Corona pandemic, have shown that disaster management is not yet sufficiently prepared for assisting people who need medical or geriatric care. For example, in the case of necessary evacuations of nursing facilities or hospitals no generalised concepts for the provision of emergency accommodation and continued care for these focus groups exists. Coordinated cooperation of civil protection services with actors from the health and care sector as well as with other actors from local civil society in the spirit of social space-oriented civil protection is almost non-existent. However, this would be essential for maintaining medical and nursing care even in crises and disasters. In addition, the provision of large numbers of people in areas where there is only limited suitable infrastructure available regularly proves particularly challenging.
This workshop aims to sensitise participants from politics, science and practice for the issue of medical and nursing care in crises and disasters. In addition, possibilities are to be discussed for providing people in crises and disasters with medical and elderly care and what is required for this from the participants' point of view. The focus will be on the cooperation between civil protection services and actors from the health and care sector