How to communicate effectively in emergency situations with fragile people? This was the topic at the centre of the meeting "Communicating in emergencies. What a fragile person feels when in emergency situations', promoted by the Trentino OdV Psychologists for Peoples yesterday afternoon in Lavis, as part of the Trentino Civil Protection Week. According to estimates,' reported the association's vice-president, Elisabeth Wegher, 'one person in ten in our society experiences a condition of fragility, which can derive from autism, dementia, cognitive, sensory or physical disabilities and other aspects such as poverty, as well as conditions that do not allow the person to independently provide for his or her own safety and serenity. Factors that therefore add to vulnerabilities that are already present. In emergency contexts - such as natural disasters or mass casualties - these people are likely to be in greater difficulty, both in managing stress and in understanding and reacting to warning messages.
Publication date: 14/10/2025
