Press Release

[Namhae] Healthy City Namhae Project Fully Underway
[Yonhap News 2006-11-28 15:05]
- Namhae-gun held ‘active aging in Namhae’ symposium with national professionals
WHO Healthy City Namhae held ‘Making Namhae a Healthy City’ symposium in Namhae Culture & Health Center on 28th at 10 a.m. Governor of Namhae Youngje- Ha and Yeongtae-Kim, the speaker of Namhae County, along with health professionals and 300 villagers filled the center. This symposium was arranged to cope with the ageing society and promote health industry in Namhae as a longevity region. The theme of the symposium was ‘Active Aging in Namhae’ and there were lots of heated discussions, lectures, and presentations among the national professionals.
During the symposium, many scholars gave their lectures on the issue. Among them were Kwanguk-Ko, a professor of Kosin University, titled ‘Aging and Health’; Donghee-Han, a director of Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly, titled ‘Vision and Project for Active Aging in Namhae’; Haesung-Nam, a professor of Chungnam University, titled ‘Effect of Health City’; Kunyeop-Kim, a professor of Konyang University, titled ‘Barometer of Healthy City’.
Also there were presentations by Jungdal-Park, a director of agriculture technology center, titled ‘Healthy City and Longevity Region Promotion in Villages’; Cheolho-Lee, a chairman of Health City Organizing Committee, titled ‘Medical Side on Ageing’; Jongpyeo-Lee, a congressman of Namhae, titled ‘Security and Independence for the Elderly’; Moonsan-Park, a president of silver university in Namhae, titled ‘Silver Participation’
Following the symposium, social drama was held in Namhae Culture&Health Center at 2 p.m. by the members of senior club from Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly. There was discussion time after the performance among the participants on the solution to the problem of dementia and dementia family.

Namhae was appointed WHO Healthy City in July, last year. It has promoted various Health Campaign to make ‘Health Barometer’ akin to the regional trait. One of them was ‘No Smoke Village Campaign’, which was favorably received nationally and internationally.
It also plans to hold ‘2007 Namhae Active Ageing Conference in Asia Pacific(ACAP)’ to make concrete policy for the ageing society and raise its international status next year.

Creating the senior IT club

There was a club which is senior IT volunteerism Wellageing Metro. It is from wellageing from LG Metrocity Apartment. The Wellageing IT center has tried to do informatization for older person. After learning how to use of computer, the member of senior IT members will do a lot of works for own their community by themselves. It will be a good culture for seniors to be participants and social integration in healthy city.

Date : 1, December, 2006

Visited Kohyun Middle School, We are Cyber Family.

The aged in wellaging of the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly called at the Kohyun Middle School, the Cyber Family, which placed in Namhae gun of Gyeongsangnam do Province on 28, November, 2006.

Both the aged and the student of the Kohyun were looking forward to seeing each other.

All the students of the school, 59 persons, received visitors, 20 persons gleefully and they had a good time with the aged in their school library.

They embraced each other with tearful eyes because of glad meeting and engaged in animated conversation. It was so impressive!

It was so wonderful day, because of their love, not the online on the site but the offline meeting. Also, It was more meaningful in that they had strong solidarity.
We hope that everyone have a continuous talk that we couldn't have while on the internet.

We offer the student and teachers of the Kohyun Middle school my heart and felt thanks for your hearty welcome.

Performed Social Drama for the Dementia Family with invitation of Namhae gun

We had a good and healthy time through the program named social drama for the dementia family in Namhae gun culture & health center on 2p.m, 28, November, 2006.

The actor presented the social drama for the dementia family successfully as professional actors although they were tired due to long trip. The actor have been performing since 1999, and they are senior club members of Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly.

Both elderly of Busan and Namhae had a precious time to understand family situation with dementia family. There were lots of discussions about family problem and family solidarity. There were no more different emotions between older person in rural and urban region. It was really meaningful time to introduce program about social drama in Namhae.

The 2nd Meeting of Dementia Family

We held the second meeting of dementia caregiving on 24, November, 2006.
We had the second round table to encourage dementia family. It started from last year. It has brought us a warm and full understanding as well as consciousness of dementia elderly and family.
This year, there were three speakers who talked about their own experience taking care of dementia parents who had already died. They all cried a lot while talking their experience with regret and missing their own parents. We know how difficult it is to care of own their parents at home. It was really great time to all.
We should have given a lot of understanding about not only dementia processes but also phenomena in regard to a variety of aging-related diseases. Thank you for all participants and especially three speakers for giving a precious chance.