South Korea Prepares The Young For A Rapidly Aging Population
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At a clean and sunny community center in Seoul, the South Korean capital, senior citizens make clay models of their own faces in an arts class. Some of the faces are vivid and lifelike. Others are expressionless and indistinct. The project is intended to help the seniors remember what they look like. This is the Gangseo District Center for Dementia. Since 2006, Seoul has opened a dementia center in each of the city's 25 urban districts. It's one of the novel approaches that South Korea has developed to cope with an epidemic of dementia. Recent data suggest that South Korea is now the fastest-aging country on Earth. By some estimates, nearly 40 percent of Koreans will be 65 years old or older by midcentury. In a sense, the country is suffering from its rapid development, which has been accompanied by soaring life expectancy and plummeting birth rates.
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Kim Dong-hyun
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Kim
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| 0 | "We publicize our programs intensively, but one of the biggest challenges we face is that many people still have not changed their attitude toward dementia," Kim says. ... |
| 0 | "We publicize our programs intensively, but one of the biggest challenges we face is that many people still have not changed their attitude toward dementia," Kim says. "Even if you go to their house to find them, they don't want to come out." |
| -0.318365 | "I am worried about the aging of our society," he says. ... |
| -0.115252 | "I am worried about the aging of our society," he says. "We need to get ready. I'm not sure what I personally can do to get ready. ... Have a lot of children to take care of me in my old age, I guess." |
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Sung
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| 0.251276 | "In past, whenever someone got dementia, it was treated as a natural occurrence," Sung says. ... |
| 0.089784 | "In past, whenever someone got dementia, it was treated as a natural occurrence," Sung says. " 'If you get old, you lose your mind,' went a common saying. Nobody treated this condition because people believed that's just the way it is." |
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Jeon Om-ryul
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Sung Mi-ra
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HealthCondition: dementia
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Country: South Korea
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City: Seoul
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Organization: Gangseo District Center
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Organization: Seoul Metropolitan Center for Dementia
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South Korea Prepares The Young For A Rapidly Aging Population
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South Korea now appears to be the fastest-aging country in the world. The government has launched a series of creative programs, including a network of community centers for dementia patients and training for young people that simulates the physical and mental effects of old age.
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