Sacheon-si, Gyeongnam Regional Dementia Center ... Designated as an Excellent Dementia Safe Village

Three Dementia Care Villages Including Gonmyeong-myeon and Samjeong-ri

Sacheon City in Gyeongnam announced on the 24th that the Gyeongsangnam-do Regional Dementia Center has designated three dementia-safe villages within the jurisdiction, including Samjeong-ri in Gonmyeong-myeon, as 'Excellent Dementia-Safe Villages.'

Dementia-safe villages are projects aimed at improving awareness of dementia and creating an environment where dementia patients and their families can live safely and freely within the local community.

Barabom Resting Place at the Dementia Safety Center, Sacheon-si, Gyeongnam.

To be designated as an excellent dementia-safe village, the village must meet seven conditions: ▲operating for more than one year △holding the operating committee twice a year ▲completion of dementia partner education △designation as a dementia overcoming leading institution ▲operation of programs for residents ▲dementia-related publicity ▲and dementia awareness surveys.

The Sacheon Dementia Safety Center has been operating a total of four dementia-safe villages, starting with Samjeong-ri in Gonmyeong-myeon in 2019, followed by Songji-ri in Yonghyeon-myeon, Suseok 2-ri in Sacheon-eup, and Chojeon-ri in Sanam-myeon.

Among these, three villages except for the newly designated Chojeon-ri in Sanam-myeon were recognized as excellent dementia-safe villages this year.

The Sacheon Dementia Safety Center plans to actively support focused dementia screening and dementia prevention program operations so that the new village, Chojeon-ri in Sanam-myeon, can also be designated as an excellent village next year.

Jeong Hee-sook, the head of the public health center, said, “We will do our best to enable local residents to participate in the operation of dementia-safe villages in various ways and to contribute to creating a dementia-friendly environment.”

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