Seocho-gu Accelerates Efforts to Create Dementia-Friendly Environment

Gu, Bangbae 2-dong Dogumeori Park, Walking Trail, and 3 Children's Parks to be Developed as 'Dementia Safe Village Environment' by Year-End

Dementia Prevention Guidelines Notice Board

Seocho-gu is creating a dementia-safe park in Bangbae 2-dong, where the proportion of elderly living alone aged 65 and over is the highest in the area.

Seocho-gu (Mayor Jeon Seong-su) will establish a ‘Dementia-Safe Village Environment’ at Dogumeori Park and walking trails in Bangbae 2-dong, as well as three children's parks starting next month. This project aims to naturally provide dementia prevention information to local residents as they walk through the parks and trails.

The district will install ▲ dementia prevention guideline notice boards ▲ logo projectors that display dementia-related information such as the 3·3·3 dementia prevention rules ▲ sensor-type voice guidance aids related to dementia by the end of the year to help residents access useful dementia prevention information.

Additionally, after the establishment, an event called ‘Bangbae 2-dong Dementia Safe Path Here~’ will be held, offering mobile gift certificates to residents who submit certification photos of the dementia prevention guideline notice boards and logo projectors. Outdoor healing programs such as park walks and tea time will also be organized for families and caregivers of dementia patients.

This project follows the selection of Bangbae 2-dong’s ‘Seocho Memory Youth Village Together with the Whole Neighborhood’ project in last month’s Ministry of Health and Welfare’s ‘2023 Dementia-Safe Village Excellent Leading Project’ contest. Accordingly, 46.65 million KRW in national and city funds will be supported until the end of the year.

The ‘Seocho Memory Youth Village Together with the Whole Neighborhood’ project will not only build dementia-friendly infrastructure in the aforementioned parks and walking trails but also promote the improvement and expansion of dementia prevention services.

Representative dementia prevention services include ▲ the ‘Visiting Customized Dementia Management Program,’ which dispatches professionals to dementia patients’ homes to assist with cognitive rehabilitation ▲ provision of care supplies ▲ and expanded operation of the dementia patient cognitive stimulation program ‘Memory Enhancement School.’

Since designating Naegok-dong as a ‘Dementia-Safe Village’ in 2018 and Yangjae 1-dong in 2020, the district has been operating these areas, both of which were selected as ‘Excellent Dementia-Safe Villages’ by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in March this year. Furthermore, since May, Seocho-gu has led the way in establishing a dense dementia safety net through differentiated projects such as the ‘Brain Oxygen Saturation Measurement-Based Cognitive Screening Test’ for residents aged 60 and over?the first among Seoul’s autonomous districts?and the ‘Seocho Dementia-Safe House,’ a customized model house applying residential environment design for dementia, first introduced nationwide in 2017.

Jeon Seong-su, Mayor of Seocho-gu, said, “We will continue to provide essential health, medical, and welfare services for dementia prevention and treatment management to create ‘a city safe from dementia, a Seocho where people can feel secure even with dementia.’”

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