Dobong-gu Provides Home-Visit 'Disability Aggravation Prevention Strengthening Exercise' Guidance and Counseling

Consultation on Strengthening Exercises and Poster Distribution to Over 800 Registered Disabled and Frail Elderly at Health Centers

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Dobong-gu (Mayor Dongjin Lee) Health Center will visit the homes of over 800 registered disabled persons and frail elderly from July 29 to provide guidance on exercise methods and counseling to support rehabilitation promotion activities.

Currently, Dobong-gu Health Center has been operating a screening clinic since February due to COVID-19 and has temporarily suspended community-based rehabilitation projects in accordance with social distancing guidelines.

Accordingly, the district has produced and distributed rehabilitation exercise posters that can be used at home to prevent joint contracture and strengthen muscles, supporting rehabilitation promotion activities for registered disabled persons and frail elderly who are unable to use rehabilitation training programs.

The muscle strengthening exercise poster to prevent disability deterioration consists of three sections that can be done at home: ▲upper limb exercises ▲trunk exercises ▲lower limb exercises.

Delivery is limited to disabled persons and frail elderly who have agreed to direct home visits, where rehabilitation specialists and visiting nurses personally deliver the posters, provide exercise guidance, and conduct counseling.

The Dobong-gu community-based rehabilitation project is currently providing only minimal services such as information on COVID-19 prevention measures and rehabilitation-related telephone counseling for registered disabled persons to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community. Home rehabilitation exercise training services are provided only to those urgently requiring rehabilitation intervention.

Mayor Dongjin Lee of Dobong-gu said, “I hope the muscle strengthening exercise posters to prevent disability deterioration will help promote rehabilitation and improve health for disabled persons and frail elderly staying at home due to social distancing. Until the COVID-19 situation ends, we will maintain a non-face-to-face management system including phone check-ins and monitoring to minimize gaps in health support.”

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