'Starting the Creation of an Age-Friendly City' Bucheon City... Improving Retirement Preparation for Shinjoongnyeon and Safe Residential Environment

Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province has officially launched efforts to create an age-friendly city.

This year, the city is promoting 50 projects to achieve four major goals under the vision of "Mature 100-Year-Old Citizen City, SAFE Bucheon": a city with a safe residential environment, a city where people can move and interact conveniently, a city that guarantees physical, psychological, and social health, and a city that embraces mutual understanding across generations.

The city plans to expand health management support projects for the elderly. A new dietary improvement program will be introduced for seniors at 20 senior centers, and the number of participants in the self-directed dementia prevention learning support program will increase from 90 to 200.

Services for retirement preparation targeting the middle-aged will also be significantly strengthened. In September, a local retirement preparation support center will open, providing counseling based on comprehensive retirement preparation assessments and offering one-stop retirement preparation services in cooperation with various specialized institutions.

The Bucheon City Senior Welfare Policy Committee held a meeting on the 29th to report on the promotion plan for the age-friendly city creation project and to gather opinions. January 29, 2023 [Photo by Bucheon City]

In addition, the city will continue to promote projects to improve safe residential environments, enhance pleasant urban infrastructure such as roads and parks, expand digital education and infrastructure, broaden mobility support policies, strengthen care and safety management for vulnerable elderly, and create jobs for seniors, thereby increasing citizen satisfaction through various age-friendly initiatives.

Since joining the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities in 2018 as the ninth city in Korea to receive certification, Bucheon has been establishing annual action plans according to its second mid- to long-term plan (2021?2025).

Deputy Mayor Song Jaehwan stated, "Bucheon is responding swiftly in preparation for entering a super-aged society," adding, "All departments will strengthen collaboration and unite efforts to create a happy age-friendly city that all generations can relate to."

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