Incheon City Monitors 'Age-Friendly Environment City Creation'... 8 Areas Including Residential and Transportation Environment

Incheon City Hall

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Incheon City will conduct monitoring from next year to create an age-friendly city as a proactive response to entering a super-aged society.

According to the city on the 9th, Incheon's aging rate is 13.4%, which is relatively younger compared to the national average (15.7%) and the average of the seven special and metropolitan cities (14.7%).

However, since Incheon is also expected to enter a super-aged society within the next 10 years, active and proactive measures are anticipated to be necessary.

Accordingly, the city plans to monitor eight areas for creating an age-friendly city: ▲ residential environment ▲ transportation ▲ housing environment ▲ community participation ▲ respect for the elderly and social integration ▲ citizen participation activities and jobs ▲ communication and market accessibility ▲ community health and welfare services.

Detailed items for each of the eight areas will focus on ease of access to employment, start-up, and welfare information, crime safety of residential facilities, convenience and safety of health facility use, readability of traffic signs, and safety of bus usage.

The Incheon Super-Aged Society Response Center, which will operate the monitoring team, plans to start full-scale monitoring activities from next year after training 26 citizens.

The city expects that not only will this contribute to building public-private governance by having citizens directly participate in monitoring activities, but also enable the design of policies with high practical impact.

An age-friendly environment (city) is a concept that pursues "active aging" and "aging in place." It is receiving significant attention not only in South Korea, which is experiencing rapid aging, but also worldwide.

An official from Incheon City stated, "We are conducting many studies and projects through the Incheon Super-Aged Society Response Center to respond to the upcoming super-aged society," adding, "We will actively support the age-friendly environment monitoring team activities so that citizens can directly participate and policy proposals can be derived."

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