Gwangju Dong-gu 'Dementia Safety Fence' Honored with Prime Minister's Award

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 30th that it secured a special grant of 200 million won after receiving the Prime Minister's Award at the ‘2022 National Policy Design Excellent Task Performance Sharing Contest’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety held on the 28th.

This contest selected award-winning projects after final judging following presentations of 10 excellent tasks that passed expert and public online evaluations among 103 policy tasks carried out by national administrative agencies and local governments' National Design Teams over the past year.

Since April, Dong-gu proposed the ‘Dementia Safe Fence’ policy by having the policy demanders, the public, participate throughout the policy establishment process together with suppliers such as public officials and service designers under the task of the ‘Zero Missing Dementia Elderly Project.’

The ‘Dementia Safe Fence’ is a missing prevention system designed to find dementia patients within the golden time to prevent the missing problem caused by wandering symptoms frequently experienced by dementia patients.

Dong-gu received high evaluations from the judging panel by proposing ▲the establishment of a cooperative system among community institutions and residents ▲development of dementia elderly information delivery cards and markers ▲installation of memory safe paths and safe chairs to prevent patients from leaving the village.

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, “It is especially meaningful that a policy directly proposed and participated in by local residents throughout the policy establishment process received an award,” and added, “We will continue to actively discover and promote policies that meet the public’s perspective, such as the ‘Dementia Safe Fence’ project.”

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