Japanese Yamanashi Prefectural University Delegation Benchmarks Bucheon City Community Integrated Care

Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 27th that a delegation from Yamanashi Prefectural University, located in the central-southern part of Honshu, Japan, visited Bucheon on the 25th to benchmark the community-integrated care system.

The integrated care system is a policy designed to prepare for a super-aged society by providing elderly individuals with comprehensive support services?including medical care, nursing, daily living assistance, and housing?while allowing them to continue living in their familiar environments.

The visiting delegation, composed of professors from the Department of Human Welfare and the Department of Nursing at Yamanashi Prefectural University, visited Bucheon City, which was selected as an exemplary local government for integrated care in South Korea, to seek insights into educational programs for training the next generation of care workers in Japan.

Bucheon Mayor Jo Yong-ik met with the delegation to have an in-depth discussion on the role of local communities and development plans for addressing care issues in a super-aged society. Afterwards, the meeting was moved to another venue where the Bucheon-style community-integrated care system was explained in detail, and the delegation’s questions were answered during a roundtable discussion.

A delegation from Yamanashi Prefectural University in Japan visited the site where Bucheon-type community integrated care system is operated on the 25th, observing the smart care services. March 25, 2020 [Photo by Bucheon City]

The delegation also visited sites where the community-integrated care system is actively operated to directly observe smart care and home visit medical services.

Professor Hiroyuki Takagi, the head of the delegation, stated, "To achieve healthy aging in one’s place of residence, it is essential to demonstrate a multidisciplinary system working together within the community, as Bucheon City has shown. I was deeply impressed by the Bucheon-style integrated care system."

Mayor Jo Yong-ik said, "For elderly individuals who have difficulty with daily living to maintain a healthy life in their familiar surroundings, it is crucial that services such as medical care, nursing, care, and housing are provided together. I hope that the Bucheon-style community-integrated care policy, which is being promoted to meet the diverse care needs of citizens, will serve as a valuable reference not only for local governments across the country but also internationally."

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