National Pension Service Supports Search for Missing Dementia Elderly

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[Asia Economy Reporter Cho Hyun-ui] The National Pension Service and the Central Dementia Center announced on the 30th that they have signed a business agreement to ensure the safety of dementia patients and promote public happiness.

This agreement was promoted to help the quick return of missing elderly dementia patients, as the number of missing dementia patients has sharply increased recently due to rapid aging, emerging as a serious social issue.

The Service plans to display information about missing elderly dementia patients on the screen of the 'Visible Automatic Response System (ARS)' of the 1355 National Pension Call Center and in the basic pension application guidance documents sent by the Service.

Currently, the 'Visible ARS' is used about 300,000 times per month on average, and approximately 50,000 basic pension application guidance documents are sent monthly, so it is expected that information about missing elderly dementia patients will be exposed about 350,000 times per month through these channels.

The Service plans to expand the types of guidance documents beyond the basic pension to allow more people to access the information and increase the number of access channels for the 'Visible ARS' from the current 30 to 100.

Both organizations also agreed to cooperate in supporting basic pension application guidance for dementia patients, promoting awareness improvement, and prevention activities.

Park Jeong-bae, Acting Director, said, "I hope this will help missing elderly dementia patients return to their families as soon as possible. We will continue to actively participate in finding missing elderly dementia patients and strive to fulfill the social responsibility of public institutions."

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