Support model for living on temporary houses in disaster area based on smart community

摘要

The Tohoku Earthquake destroyed social functions of the city and social communities of people. And then, we cannot visible sign of recovery yet. The administrations in affected areas are looking for a new urban development consideration of such disasters. However, the concept visions of the reconstruction plan in the affected areas have been proposed, a concrete action plan is not clearly shown for each stages. As a new urban development, a smart community concept has been proposed in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) before the earthquake. That concept aims an integrated and optimized community society with a variety of social services such as an energy, transportation, and logistics system. Currently, many problems for living in temporary houses have occurred. Particularly, the disuse syndrome in the elderly in temporary housing is serious. The many elderly have lost connection with outside community, because of moving to the temporary housing. And then they become withdrawal condition. Finally, they become bedridden by decline in physical function. These problems are common problem in future aging society in Japan. In this paper, the support model for a living on temporary houses in the disaster area is mentioned. The model become to a test bed model based on smart community toward future aging society.