Seongdong-gu Distributes 'Dementia Safety Kits' to Dementia Patients
Development and Distribution of Home 'Dementia Safety Kits' for Dementia Seniors Due to Prolonged COVID-19... From the 23rd, 125 Dementia Senior Households to Receive Kits via Mailboxes, Dementia Prevention Exercises Also Planned
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jung Won-oh) Dementia Safety Center has developed and distributed a home-based learning program called the ‘Dementia Safety Cognitive Activity Kit’ (hereafter Dementia Safety Kit) for dementia patients and high-risk elderly registered at the center, in response to the prolonged COVID-19 situation.
Since the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Seongdong-gu last month, the center has suspended all programs used by elderly dementia patients and closed the facility to prevent community spread.
As the COVID-19 situation prolongs, there is concern over worsening symptoms such as deepening depression and memory decline among dementia elderly who cannot receive program treatments.
Accordingly, starting from the 23rd, the center decided to develop and distribute a COVID-19 response home-use ‘Dementia Safety Kit’ to a total of 125 dementia elderly households, supplementing the previously used worksheets.
The home-use ‘Dementia Safety Kit’ is an activity workbook designed to help practice cognitive activities for dementia prevention. It is a home-based cognitive activity program devised so that the cognitive activity programs previously operated by the Dementia Safety Center can be learned at home. It consists of ▲memory training ▲orientation training ▲attention and calculation ability ▲composition activities ▲hand muscle activities.
Considering that the high-risk elderly are vulnerable to infection, the kits are delivered by contacting them via phone first and allowing them to receive the kits at their mailbox or in front of their door, practicing social distancing to prevent COVID-19.
Mr. Im, an elderly person who used the Dementia Safety Center’s rest program for six months, said, “I missed the friends and teachers I studied with, so I was very depressed these days, but when I was contacted that they would send the activity sheets to my home, I thanked the center staff several times.”
Heo Jae-hyuk, director of Seongdong-gu Dementia Safety Center, said, “We plan to continuously produce and distribute additional ‘Dementia Safety Kits,’ and for those struggling due to lack of activity, we will also produce and distribute videos of ‘Dementia Prevention Exercises’ that can be easily followed at home.”
In addition, they plan to continue communication with the elderly through an SNS channel opened on Kakao Channel.
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Jung Won-oh, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, said, “Care for mentally high-risk groups such as dementia elderly is more important than anything else at this time,” and added, “I hope this Dementia Safety Kit will help the elderly and their families get through this difficult time even a little.”
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