Tokyo 45 deaths per week on suspicion of heat stroke The actual situation and background is August 8 at 21:05

Interviews with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and others revealed that 45 people died in Tokyo in the week after suspicion of heat stroke.

The reality is that the elderly living alone are dying without being noticed by anyone, or have been confined in their homes and are likely to be isolated from their surroundings.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, it was found that 45 men and women in their 40s and 90s died of suspicion of heat stroke during the week from August 1st to 7th.

Of the 26 people who found out about their actual life, 13 of them were half aged, and a woman in her 70s died in a room with a broken air conditioner in a Katsushika City residence.

On the other hand, NHK's interview revealed that even if they live with their families, they are staying in homes that tend to be isolated from their surroundings, and that there is a situation where damage can spread due to the effects of dementia. It was.

On the 7th, in a case of a 90-year-old woman and a 60-year-old woman who were supposed to be a parent and child at a residence in Nishi Tokyo City, the room temperature was close to 38 degrees.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and local residents, parents and children refused to support the government or refused to interact with the community.

A neighbor man said, “It would be a shame to think that it would be useful if there was even a little interaction.”

Furthermore, in the case where an 83-year-old woman died in an apartment in Suginami-ku three days ago, the air conditioner in the room was not moving, and only the 88-year-old husband with dementia that the woman was taking care of It was left.

My husband forgets things a few hours ago, and the use of the air conditioner remains the same, and it is said that there is a danger of heat stroke.

The son said, “My father's dementia is progressing and my mother's death is sad and sad, but my father is more worried. I can't imagine if both of them were supposed to be. I have no choice but to support it. "