Ulsan City and Dementia Safety Center Secure National Funding for 3 Projects in 'Safe Village' Discovery Contest

Providing Various Services Tailored to Regional Characteristics

Residents Together Take a Step Forward with the ‘Dementia愛’ Project

Ulsan City is accelerating its dementia-safe village creation project by leveraging the secured national funding.

On the 25th, Ulsan City announced that three projects were selected in the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s ‘Dementia-Safe Village Excellent Pilot Project Discovery Contest,’ securing 110 million KRW in national funds.

This contest was promoted to discover excellent new dementia-safe village projects based on the characteristics of local communities and to expand them nationwide in the future.

The three selected projects were proposed by the Dementia Safety Centers of Jung-gu, Nam-gu, and Buk-gu, and are scheduled to be carried out from August to December this year.

The Jung-gu Dementia Safety Center will operate a performance planning and theater program titled “Our Village Youth Theater! I Am the Main Character!” using human resources from performance halls and lifelong learning centers within the Seongan-dong dementia-safe village jurisdiction. This aims to create a dementia-friendly cultural space and promote healthy bonds between dementia patients and residents.

The Nam-gu Dementia Safety Center will provide companionship care and cognitive enhancement activities through AI care robots and dementia care managers in the Samho-dong dementia-safe village under the theme “Harmony of New and Old, Welcome to the Dementia-Safe Village!” They also plan to install digital dementia information boards to create a dementia-safe village where both patients and residents can live happily.

The Buk-gu Dementia Safety Center will form and operate the “Dementia Love (愛) One Heart Choir,” a new specialized dementia-safe village project where dementia patients and residents participate together, aiming to improve cognitive function through musical activities. They will also create a dementia-friendly environment involving local residents.

An official from Ulsan City said, “By providing various differentiated services tailored to local characteristics, this will serve as an opportunity to prevent severe dementia progression and advance toward a dementia-friendly safe village where residents and dementia patients coexist.”

Ulsan City Hall.

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