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Adieu 2009 and Happy New Year !!!!

2010-01-04T23:32:00.000-08:00

We all are very appreciated your kind concerns of Wellageing. We can tell you that RISBLE has done a lot of works to develop programs and research in 2009. Every end of year we had written all our sharing times which were very precious memories in Adieu message. With doing it we already expect what happens in 2010 .

Think of 2009, we never forget our Cyber Family from Osaka Japan last Much. They were very health and bright young students who were loved by older grandparents in cyber space. Our 28 navigators who had worked for communities were enough to be symbol of active aging. There were a lot of precious our old friends in 2009. Active Aging members, INPEA members, Shanghai People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries in China, AABC in Japan, and Ms Arlene from Canada and Ms Lisa from USA, Dr. Verna from New Zealand gave a strong friendship in this year, we never forget them.

Dr. Han also presented many papers about Elder Abuse, Active Aging and Digital Aging issues. Also She had done co- writers a Chapter about Digital Divide with Dr. Kathryn Braun. It will be come out soon in 2010.

RISBLE had another prises from government rewards for Dementia Family Programs in this year. NGO RISBLE was moderated as Foundation. We invited New Board Members who were professors in University, and very active leaders in Busan. RISBLE have done a lot of works again in 2009( do you thing so?!!!!!!) . Even though all were past but we are very happy while watching last pictures. Adieu 2009 and Happy Happy New Year for all of you!!!!!!!!!

MOU Agreement with JeonNam Culture Industry Promotion Agency

2009-08-13T18:50:00.001-07:00

Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly agreed upon MOU with JeonNam Culture Industry Promotion Agency to develop and design functional game and silver contents industry on June 22. Both agencies will cooperate on research, idea exchange, and the negotiation of the issues involved with various developing contents for old persons. It is expected to contribute to the quality of life for old persons by technology.

The 4th WEAAD in Korea

2009-08-13T18:14:00.000-07:00

Korean Information Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (KINPEA) and Japan INPEA
had co- worked the 4th WEAAD in Busan Korea. In this year, both two countries needed
to discussed the future direction of elder abuse in Asia Pacific. The ceremony was very successful.
From Japan, Prof. Toshio Tatara (Ph.D), Asia Representative of International Network
for the Prevention of Elder Abuse(INPEA), Shukutoku University Graduate School of Integrated Human and Social Welfare, Prof. Noriko Tsukada (Ph.D), Japan Representative of INPEA, Nihon University, Graduate School of Business in Tokyo, Chair for the INPEA Japanese Committee, Prof. Akiko Sasaki, Department of Community Health Nursing, Tokyo Medical School of Community Health Nursing in Tokyo, from Korea, Kyu-tak Sung , Chair-Professor of Michigan University in the US, Mi-hye Kim, Professor of Ewha Womans University Graduate School of Social Welfare, Dong Hee Han, Korea Representative of INPEA, Director of Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly (RISBLE), Visiting Professor at Kosin University. Also there was special guest from USA, Ms Lisa Nereneberg, Consultant in elder abuse prevention. We would like to express all Participators and Korean professors who are researching and interest in elder abuse to take part in the ceremony.
The main purpose in this year was as follow;
1) To provide the insightful solution to intervene in the negative effects of elder abuse through sharing international concerns on the risk factors of elder abuse
2) To promote social advocacy for elder abuse among the members of society as well as
the elderly and get rid of social prejudice against older persons by replacing it with the
positive concept through the WEAAD ceremony, which has been held annually since
2006
3) To develop common agenda for the prevention of elder abuse in the future through the
discussions between the representatives of International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), namely from Korea and Japan.
Also this event was reported to INPEA and introduce by DVD in the 4th WEAAD in 19th IAGG.

Visiting President ACAP Dr. Kathryn Braun and Dr. Ogawa Takeo

2009-08-13T18:13:00.000-07:00

President Dr. Braun , Dr. Ogawa, Dr. Han and Dr. Conybeare discussed future direction ACAP. Also they met Korean Research Group of ACAP and some governors who understand Active Aging Mission in Korea. Especially Dr. Braun and Dr. Ogawa have supported to build Active Aging police in Korea. They’re also co-workers with RISBLE as international consultants. RISBLE will try to develop a good model of Active Aging continually. We are very appreciated sharing precious time in Korea

Visiting AABC and delegation from Fukuoka Japan

2009-08-13T18:12:00.001-07:00

To share information and exchange programs of aging, AABC and delegation which were involved researchers, managers of facilities, and officer member visited RISBLE. With round traveling Namgu Busan Korea which RISBLE belongs, we could understand both of roles in future. We sincerely welcomed all of you.

Off-Line Meeting of Cyber Family between Kunkook Middle School Students from Japan and Wellaging Cyber Family

2009-08-13T02:07:00.000-07:00

There were very glad and warm meeting in Wellageing. From 2007 being Cyber Family between older persons in Wellageing and Kunkook Middle School students who is Korean Japanese in Osaka Japan had met in Wellaging Center on March 16. They had a good time taking pictures and watching computer lessons by seniors. Some student called “ Harmoney” (Korean: Grandmother) and hug each other feeling the same nation. Older persons prepared very kind and strong expression where they are from and who they are. Kunkook students also had a good time in Youngho Middle School; they spent time with the same age group playing balleyball and basketball.

2009 Internet Navigators

2009-08-13T02:06:00.000-07:00

RISBLE set up New Internet Navigators in 2009. In Wellageing Centers, Branch of RISBLE, they have lead information skill for older persons in Busan Korea.

New members will be shared their ability for community. They have practice the mission of Active Aging by digital aging. They will show the best cases how they apply the way of digital life for their social participation. This model is from peer group program and they have lead digital application in late life. Last Feb. 27, 2009, RISBLE had a big event to encourage their dreaming start of Internet Navigators in LG wellagieng center.

Farewell to 2008

2009-01-20T22:32:00.000-08:00

As another year came to a close, RISBLE reflected upon what happened and how it endeavored to improve itself in face of a rapid aging society.
It began the year with the Internet Navigate Program, which made its first official opening in February with 20 elderly instructors. The program was designed to bridge of digital divide and practice digital aging in Korea. Following in March, the delegation consisted of the representatives of RISBLE and the Internet Navigate Instructors made a visit to AABC Center in Japan. The delegation participated in seminars to introduce the digital aging program in Korea and visited the elderly facilities in Fukuoka. To further promote its goal, RISBLE organized the educational training program, titled ‘Health Management and Re-designing Old Age through Health Website’ in association with the National Health Insurance Corporation in April. The leading national media KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) composed a documentary featuring the digital aging developed by RISBLE in May. Furthermore, the annual celebration of the 3rd World Elder Abuse Awareness Day was held on June 30. There was a special guest, Dr. Verna Scolfield, national president of New Zealand Gerontology Association. Also in September, the Korean delegation of ACAP composed of 33 members went to Shanghai to participate in the 4th Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific. It was co worked with Shanghai International Aging Conference was filled with distinguished participants from UN, WHO, various national government agencies, academics, media, and the elderly people. At the same time, there was IT Busan Expo held in the BEXCO and the RISBLE participated in the Exhibition to promote Digital Aging in Korea. In October, the ‘2nd 1080 We’re Family Game Festival’ was held, which introduced the game as a new alternative to leisure activities for the elderly living in information era. Besides, Dr. Kathryn Braun, the professor of University of Hawaii and the president of ACAP, came to Busan along with her husband, Dr. Chris Conybeare, the professor of University of Hawaii and the professional journalist, added further support for promoting Active Aging in Korea. Two professors delivered a very valuable lecture to the government officials of social welfare in Busan. To encourage its own hard endeavors throughout the year, the RISBLE culminated the year 2008 with the 4th Meeting of Dementia Family in December. The event was co-organized with Kosin University and invited dementia families nationwide to share their stories and sympathize with others. In addition, the director of the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau Team visited the institute to observe the elderly welfare facilities in Namgu, Busan and discuss ideas for further cooperation with the RISBLE.
As always, RISBLE spent another meaningful and busy time in the year 2008 promoting the spirit of Active Aging with a new perspective, Digital Aging. This year, RISBLE pledges to continue its contribution to the creation of Active Aging society in Korea and throughout the world. Happy New Year!

2nd 1080 We’re Family Game Festival

2008-10-31T20:19:00.000-07:00

Name : 1080 We’re Family Game Festival

Aim : To promote intimate relationship between grandparents and grandson/granddaughter by sharing an online culture and to open up a new digital leisure in which all family members, grandparents, parents and grandson/granddaughter alike, can participate and enjoy

Date : Oct, 25, Sat, 2008 13:00~17:00

Venue : Auditorium in Nam-gu City HallMain events

To promote an intergenerational model, the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly(RISBLE) held the 2nd 1080 We're Family Game Festival in Namgu, Busan, Korea. Over 200 families gathered together and had time to share their love and enjoy memorable time. In the digital era, the family game festival opened up a new digital leisure that all family members can participate together.

The important facts learned through the festival can be summmarized as follows;

1. Development Opportunities of Digital Ageing for the Wellbeing of the Elderly : In the beginning, the possibility of online games as a new alternative for elder's leisure activities seemed to be highly unlikely. However, as the event took place and more and more elders present were enthusiastic about participating in the game, we discovered that online games can also point out a new direction for achieving Active Ageing for older persons, especially those with physical disabilities or residing in care facilities. It will greatly facilitate the pleasure as well as cheerfulness of the old people by preventing them from spending time idly in neglect.
2. Promotion of Intergenerational Activities : As digital leisure is emerging to be the new mode of pastime activities for increasingly many children and adolescents around the world, it becomes vitally important to promote cyberspace interaction between the youth and the older generation. In this respect, the online game can be a very powerful tool for intimately interactive communication.

Bearing the valuable lessons in mind, RISBLE promises to heighten our commitment and dedication to developing and disseminating Active Aging around the world.

4th ACAP in Shanghai

2008-10-31T19:58:00.000-07:00

Host : China Shanghai
Theme : The development of old age programs
Subject : 1) Services for Elderly
2) Elderly participation in society
Date : Sept, 25- 28, 2008
Venue : Convention Center in Shanghai City
Main events : Welcome gala, Keynote speech, Workshop, Presentation of the Elderly Cultural Performance Team, Silver Product Exhibition, Exchange among representatives from 16 countries
Participating Countries : Australia, Denmark, France, Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macau, Malta, Mongolia, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, US, China, etc.

The 4th Active Aging Consortium in Asia Pacific(ACAP) was held in Shanghai with many participants from around the world. The conference offered an opportunity for international scholars to share their ideas as a name of Active Aging. 35 delegates were sent from Korea; scholars, officers, older persons.

The new ACAP president was elected to be Dr. Kathryn Braun who is a professor of University of Hawaii. With the progress of Ageing society across the globe, the mission of Active Ageing is becoming more crucial and important. We, Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly(RISBLE), do our best to make the best practice of Active Aging for Korean society and the whole world.

The 3rd WEAAD in Korea

2008-06-30T20:59:00.000-07:00

Korean Information Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (KINPEA) had ceremony the 3rd WEAAD in Busan Korea. In this year, there was also a big event by Ministry of Health Welfare and the National Elder Abuse Counseling Centers in Korea. It is very pleased that we all will be continually cerebrated every 15 June in every year in Korea.
The event that was hosted by KINPEA was special ceremony of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and the workshop with Dr. Verna Scolfield who is national president of New Zealand and Dr. Donghee Han who is national representative Korean INPEA. It was very meaningful time to compare situation of elder abuse issue both of societies. There were various audiences from police makers, reporters, researchers, practitioners, volunteers and older persons. There was participation, which includes not just the elderly but all members of other generations as well. There was declared right of human being for older person.
Meantime, Dr. Go Hyangshook who is KINPEA members took part in Ottawa WEAAD in 2008.

Education program for the elderly health promotion by ICT

2008-06-30T20:39:00.000-07:00

RISBLE has conducted education program for the elderly health promotion by ICT with National Health Insurance Corporation. Particularly, the National Health Insurance Corporation has been leading role in promoting the 2008 Long-Term Care Insurance Service in Korea. Both of institution designed program to use of computer and to be empowered for older persons to get the right information by themselves at own their home. For 2 months, communication skill, exercise, information for health caring in late life, redesign later life, training ICT programs were main subject for older persons. RISBLE and NHIC will continually develop and deliver for older person to keep the healthy life in aging.

Internet Navigator

2008-04-25T01:29:00.000-07:00

The mission of digital aging is constructed in Busan Korea. RISBLE organized Internet Navigator for older persons last Feb. They are also older person who can have various resources for their communities. They have trained for one month about IT skill and teaching method by RISBLE programs. They will teach skill how can use computer and IT culture for older person. Also they will a responsibility to keep the better life for older person in their communities. They will give a model what digital life is.

Developed Contents on the Active Ageing

2008-01-15T19:05:00.000-08:00

The Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly has developed the contents on the Active Ageing. This will provide the information how keeps active and positive attitutes for older person in late life. We have developed Contents of Elder Abuse, Information for Food Habits in Doumnara Content operating under the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO). We have used them as materials for education menuals for older persons. It is very heplful to show real cases to keep the active life and positive attitude in late life for lots of older persons.

Happy New Year !!!!

2008-01-03T17:08:00.000-08:00

RISBLE was established on March 10, 1997 as purpose of making better life for seniors. It has done the mission of Wellageing for 10 years.

All we are very proud of ourselves to spread our mission for older persons in Korea. Even though it was not easy to come hear, we recognize that working with wellageing was great experience for us. Among our programs, Cyber Family, Cyber Neighbor, Elder abuse, KINPEA, Integration older person to the informational society, Woman elderly issue with redesign later life, Workforce for the elderly, Support program for dementia patients, Systemic approach learning center for using computer for ICT have been changing older person’s image little by little. While developing programs, we found our efforts were meaningful and creative for the better life for the elderly of the elderly and by the elderly.

All things are like yesterday. We will step again for next decade. We would like to express our deep thanks to many friends, administration and supporters who have encouraged to our institute; ACAP, INPEA, Seniornet, IBM, Busan Metro City and Busan Namgu administrations and Namhae gun. We never forget our older persons who are with us for long time. We will do promise to keep our efforts with Wellageing continually. We wish great blessing from God on 2008 for all of our valuable supporters. We sincerely wish you a Happy New Year!!!

Talking about burden of caring Dementia patients

2007-12-03T23:54:00.000-08:00

There was meaningful conference to talk and understand burden and affection about caring of Dementia patients in their family on November 28. It was the 3rd conference. In this time we tried to make social consensus how we should work together and systemically in our community with dementia in aging society. To find early signs of dementia and to catch of right diagnosis were the most precious things for families in early step.

Social drama team of RISBLE also showed a great affection and sympathy with dementia family and patient in this time. All we were spent a momentous time with lots thoughts and value. Every end of year we have had conference for supporting family, we hope it was helpful to understand what we should do with waring signs of Dementia. We again appreciated all participants and Busan government.

Opening of New Wellageing Center

2007-10-27T02:59:00.001-07:00

We extended our IT education center to found local culture network through lifelong education. IBM supported computers setting for wellageing center. The Wellageing Center held the opening ceremony on October 18, Thursday, to celebrate the expansion of IT education centers. Many special guests including the Mayor of Nam-gu as well as the elderly participated in the event to see the progress report of Wellageing Centers and wish for the continuing development of Digital Aging through Wellageing Centers. Again we are deeply appreciated our all heart to IBM.

On-line Discussion for Three Generations

2007-10-27T02:53:00.000-07:00

We hold “On-line Discussion for Three Generations” on a monthly basis to help close the generational gasp and lead the sound discussion culture finding the solution for various social issues. The selected topic embraces the broad point of views among three generations and participants ranging from the elderly to the adolescents join the discussion by posting their opinion on the online board at the homepage, http://www.wellageing.com/.

What's Active Ageing

2007-08-20T01:07:00.000-07:00

Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly has been promoting Active Ageing throughout the world. The following is the introduction of the concept of Active Ageing. We sincerely hope it may help you understand the meaning and the core value of the concept, so that the Active Ageing can also spread in your community.

Active Aging

The ageing society has emerged as one of the most urgent issues in the 21st Century, increasingly becoming the important agenda for the world leaders to solve. Korea is not exempt from the worldwide mainstream, and it has exerted multi-faceted efforts to establish the regulations to prepare itself for the daunting challenge brought by the rapid ageing process. The main focus in dealing with the problems such as support, leisure, and medical aids for the elderly has primarily linked the problems with the elderly. Many countries have tried to resolve the elderly problems in social perspectives, holding the state or the institution solely responsible for tackling with what should be presumed as a more complex issue. The world slowly realized that the elderly problems cannot be resolved by one body alone, and that the task force should be based on the active attitude of the elderly themselves to aggressively resolve the problems.
Active Aging combines the concept of productive ageing and successful ageing, drawing the participation from the elderly to actively lead their old life. It does not concern with the Anti-Ageing concept, which represents physical wellbeing or body image, but the inclusive approach to empower the elderly to lead active old life, so that they can contribute to the society, not as a social burden, but social capital for their community and country. It also focuses on the age-friendly environment to help the elderly maintain their health and lead more convenient life by the technological benefit.
The detailed guideline was mentioned during the Third Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific in Namhae, 2007, and the declaration of Namhae Active Ageing was adopted. Active Ageing has been superficially concerned with Anti-Ageing, but the concept proposed by the Active Ageing Network is to empower the elderly to maintain their psychological, physical, substantial, emotional, mental health. In summary, it encourages the elderly, who previously remained secluded or isolated from society, to continually participate in the society as an active member and social resource with rich experience and knowledge. It also helps them to maintain their physical wellbeing in local community, and offers the substantial environments so that the elderly can feel comfortable moving in the area. And it tries to build the age-friendly city which optimizes the quality of life for not only the elderly, but also the whole community. Finally, the emotional approach to change the society where the elderly is no longer abused or neglected, but encouraged to live healthy and active life with the spread of social filial piety, will be the key to promoting Active Ageing life.

MOU Agreement with Busan Techno Park

2007-07-04T22:05:00.001-07:00

Dr. Donghee Han (Director, Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly) agreed upon MOU with Mr. Jung Dongkeun (Director, Center for Supporting Age-friendly Industrialization of Busan Techno Park) to develop an innovative vision for aged society and work for the success of the age-friendly industry.
Both institutes will cooperate on research, idea exchange, and the negotiation of the issues involved with Ageing in Busan. It is expected to contribute to the quality of life for old persons.

○ Date : June, 25th (Mon) 11:00a.m., 2007

○ Place : Meeting Room at the Center for Supporting Age-friendly Industrialization of Busan Techno Park

The Second World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD)

2007-06-26T18:57:00.000-07:00

Korea Information Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (KINPEA) held the 2nd World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Anniversary on June 11, Monday, 2007, following the first event in 2006. The second event was held from 10:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. on the 12th floor of the Busan Metropolitan City Hall. There were 300 participants, including many counselors and professionals from the Elder Abuse centers nationwide as well as the elders along with their family.
Particularly, the special event to mark the purple color as the token of hope for the awareness on elder abuse to be brought to light from darkness was included in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
All participants tied purple handkerchiefs around their wrists and shouted the slogan, “Moving Forward” right before the declaration of Human Rights for the Elderly, and let their handkerchiefs remain worn until the end of ceremony as the sign for the ‘Purple Movement.’
Ms. Alrene Groh, Elder Abuse Restorative Justice Resource Consultant for the Elder Abuse Response Team, presented the examples of many inevitable family conflicts caused by elder abuse and suggested restorative justice as the alternative solution. In the following session, the discussion and Q&A session followed to offer a valuable opportunity for professionals from both Korea and Canada. After the event, we received the letter of gratitude from the mayor of Kitchener, the mayor of Waterloo, and the Waterloo Regional Police. We thank them all for their kind acknowledgement. Also, we’d like to extend our sincere gratitude to Ms. Alrene Groh, for her kind cooperation as well as strong effort, and we look forward to continued exchanges and cooperation to build the society free of elder abuse.

Also, the director of the institute, Dr. Donghee Han, participated in the WEAAD 2007 “Pre-Event” Global Symposium: "Exchanges on Achievements and Future Strategies." at WHO, Geneva, from June 14-15, 2007. It was time of much worth and importance as she presented Korea’s elder abuse and human right advocacy movement to the international representatives and she established strong network with them. We promise to continue to exert our utmost to raise international awareness on elder abuse and move forward in search of the ultimate solution.

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day to be Held on June, 11

2007-06-01T17:27:00.001-07:00

The event to mark the Second World Elder Abuse Awareness Day will be held on 11th of June in Busan, Korea. This is the second event following the first Korea World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June, 15, 2006. This year’s theme of the Second World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is “Moving Forward.” The event will include the celebration of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day and the workshop in the Busan Metropolitan City Hall. Ms. Alren Groh, Elder Abuse Restorative Justice Resource Consultant for the Elder Abuse Response Team, will make presentation during the workshop with the title, “Restorative Justice Approach for the Elder Abuse.” Restorative Approach offers the solution of elder abuse that is the closest to Korean culture and customs, and it can be applied to other family problems such as family violence or conflicts. It also aims to find practical solution to elder abuse around the world, bringing the victims, the wrongdoer, and their communities together for collaborative harmony. We also hope the event will help raise awareness across the countries.

We’re Family - 1080 Game Festival

2007-05-23T23:12:00.000-07:00

To promote close relationship between the first generation and the third generation, we’re planning to hold the event called ‘We’re Family – 1080 Game Festival’ on May 26, Saturday. The event is divided into two sections; online and off - line activities. The online game is planned to introduce the current game trend of teenagers to the older adults and improve positive relationship among the adolescents and the elderly. On the other hand, the off - line game will give the chance for the adolescents to understand traditional playing culture through off - line activities. We hope the event will help promote deeper understanding of each other, offering both time and space for mutual communication between them.
It is also a movement to destroy the prejudice of older persons and deliver information culture for the elderly. One of the participants posted her story on the web, saying,
“It is funny that young generation can’t take part in the on-line game festival without their grandparents.” It’s our cordial wish that the event will provide valuable moment for all the participants, combining both young and old to produce good harmony.

The End of 2007 Namhae Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific

2007-05-23T23:04:00.000-07:00

The Third Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific has reached its successful closure and we would like to extend our cordial gratitude to all who participated in 2007 Namhae Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific. Without your strong support and kind cooperation, the conference could not have turned out to be as fruitful as it is. We also highly appreciate hard effort of those who had diligently worked for the success of the event. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the institute, and we therefore consider the conference to be full of valuable meaning. We are not planning to hold a big ceremony to congratulate our 10th anniversary, but we do plan to work on several projects for the betterment of the elderly and their communities. We already have published books with the title ‘Cyber Family’ and held the Third Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific. The current future plan includes ‘We’re Family - 1080 Game Festival’, ‘The Second World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Korea’, and ‘the 2nd World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Geneva.’ We hope to extend our work for improving the quality of life for the elderly and their communities as we mark the 10th anniversary of our institute, and sincerely wish the best for all who have exhibited their keen interest in Active Aging. Thank you.

2007 Namhae Active Ageing Conference in Asia Pacific

2007-05-11T23:25:00.000-07:00

2007 Namhae Active Ageing Conference in Asia Pacific will be held from May 16 to 18, this week. The institute has worked in cooperation with the administration of Namhae and many other organizations. Also, a number of national and international professionals in gerontology have showed us their strong support and hard effort for the successful conference, which has spurred us to work even harder. Without the support and interest from all of you, we would not have been able to come this far. We’d like to extend our sincere gratitude to every one of you and cordially look forward to seeing you in Namhae with all of our heart. Thank you.

Centenarian in Namhae

2007-05-11T23:21:00.000-07:00

This is the picture of an elderly woman whose age is 100 and currently living in the longevity region of Namhae. The four generations are living together in her house and she still maintains her grace at her age. Her 100th anniversary passed just a month ago and we congratulated her birthday. We sincerely hope many elders will live a healthy and active life in old age and work together for active ageing. From her smile, we can feel “getting older is not just bad.”

Shanghai Government Representatives’ Visit

2007-03-30T22:52:00.000-07:00

The representatives from Civil Bureau of Shanghai Government visited the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly in Busan, Korea to discuss the common solution to elderly problems in both Korea and China.Also, it offered a valuable opportunity to share the vision for the 2008 Fourth Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific.

Cyber Family’s Off-line Meeting

2007-03-30T19:46:00.000-07:00

The Cyber Family (Busan Keonguk Middle School, Japan Osaka Keonguk Middle School, and Elderly Participants) exchange program was conducted on March, 19, 2007. This gave Cyber Family a chance to meet their long-cherished members again after the offline festival last year. We hope Cyber Family will continue their good harmony via the internet no matter how far they are as they became a virtual family.

Seventeens and Seventies “We feel no Generational Gap”

2007-02-20T22:22:00.000-08:00

On / off-line Meeting through Cyber Family Program by the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly
The warm conversation between adolescents and the elderly…now made into the book

[Pusanilbo 2007. 02.15]

Is an honest talk between grandpa in seventies and a boy in seventeen possible? For grandpa, a boy may seem fussy. As for a boy, grandpa may seem fusty.

However, the real problem has always been the bias. That’s why the program turned out to be effective. The program was conducted by the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly. The whole result was compiled in the book called ‘사이버 가족 Cyber Family’. It is rather a compiling report of the past 10 years since the establishment of the institute.

The book doesn’t have one specific figure. It is a book without heroes. Instead of heroes, there are a number of pictures and talks. In the pictures, many elderly and children appear. They had an open talk, as if they were playing at a tug of war or three-legged race to overcome the generational gap.

“I want to raise my hand and ask the teacher a question, but I have no courage to do so as I’m not very good at studying. I don’t want to be seen, by my friends, as bothering the class. I know I have to do something to change my personality, but I simply can’t.”

“Why don’t you try raising your question loudly? The beginning is always difficult, but once you get used to it, you’ll be better at it.”

“Well, I understand raising a question is not easy. Why don’t you send an e-mail to your teacher? Your curiosity on something proves that you have interest in the study. Also, don’t underestimate your fine personality.”

These are the posted articles in the Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 . First, the adolescent posted their questions and then the elderly wrote their answers. The talk was not awkward. Rather, it appears more familiar than the one between friends of the same age. The problem was not generational gap.

The Chapter 7 attracted our attention for the same reason.
“Studying is my biggest trouble. And I started to feel annoyed at nagging of my parents. I feel like I’m becoming an adolescent. I want to go out of my house. I don’t know if my parents are aware of this.”

“You feel probably bad about your parents since they don’t express their care but only nag you out. Then, imagine that you’re a father and what would you do with your children. Can you think of different ways to treat them? I think your parents are concerned about the fact that if you lose the time to study right now, you’ll have rare chance to do it again. That is because of the love of your parents to you.”

The grade and lose of self-confidence is the common topic for the adolescent. Therefore, the topic tends to be quite serious. However, it doesn’t mean that the talk also has to be weighed down. With a simple phrase of “I understand you,” the gate of the talk was opened. The Chapter 31 and the Chapter 35 contains this issue.

“I’ve studied early in the morning, but my grades don’t improve. What should I do?”

“I guess you feel quite a burden. I’ve seen some people who were weak in an actual test. However, the effort is never in vain as long as there’s a certain goal.”

“Hypnotize yourself. There are not always good things in the world. “Murphy’s law’ is much more powerful than ‘Sally’s law’. I’d like to tell you that if you can’t avoid it, then enjoy it.”

The talk doesn’t always need a special topic. There are some articles that share the remembrance and experiences in the Chapter 6 .
“I was surprised to hear that an azalea is edible. I tried some and the taste was sweet though a bit strange.”
“You haven’t tried an azalea until now? When I was a girl like you, I used to play with my friends a ‘flower game’ and ate an azalea so much that both of my lips became blue. We called an edible plant as a real flower and inedible as a dog flower.”

The talk goes beyond the national boundaries. In the Chapter 42 and Chapter 44 , there are cyber talks between the students in Osaka, Japan and the elderly in Korea.
“Dear grandpa and grandma in Korea. I feel like we’re much closer through talking on the Internet. I can’t go to Korea often, but I’m really happy to meet our Cyber Family any time through the internet.”

Any tangled yarn can be raveled smoothly with time. The conversation was just like that. It was the exit to the blocked world without communication. Whenever the adolescents expressed their troubles and the elderly posted their answer. The answer was more like sympathy than an advice, but what was needed to overcome the generational gap was ‘not an advice, but sympathy’.

‘Cyber Family (www.wellageing.com) Program began back in 2004. It was designed to destroy the negative prejudice of the relationship between the adolescents and the elderly. Anyone can post their articles and answers, but six schools decided to ‘stay as a virtual member.’ These include Gamman and Manduk Middle School in Busan, Gohyun Middle school in Gyeongnam, Pogok Middle School in Gyeonggi, Hwasan Middle School in Jeonnam, Japan Osaka Keonguk Middle School and the Busan branch of the National Health Insurance Corporation. They had an off-line festival when they first met face to face beyond the internet. The clue of the conversation was closer than our thoughts.
Hyunchoong Paek choong@busanilbo.com

2007 Namhae ACAP Logo Concept

2007-02-02T00:27:00.000-08:00

The logo symbolizes the Namhae Grand Bridge to depict the active aging of Namhae people.

The blue suspension line begins from the figure of an old couple and connects island to island, province to province, and nation to nation.

The green color portrays the vibrant nature of Namhae and the red color represents the vitality of active aging

In summary, the design embraces the nature, people, and the symbol of Namhae(the Grand Bridge) in a holistic harmony.

Cyber Family Book

2007-01-30T23:50:00.000-08:00

We are more than happy to announce the publication of the Cyber Family Book in Korea. The Book includes all the materials posted on the website at http://www.wellageing.com/. The Cyber Family Program is regarded as a great contributor to the intergeneration of the adolescents and the seniors.
This book is available in Korean version. The following is the description of the book.

Cyber Family is a practical program for intergeneration as a new family model in the digital era.
It has encouraged the seniors who have lived through analogue era to extend their love and warmth to the adolescents in the digital era who have had no experience of such feelings.
In the Cyber Family Space (www.wellageing.com), there is a strong sympathy on the chaotic identity between the adolescents and the seniors. It has changed both the negative prejudice of the seniors through various activities of the elderly and the adolescents, helping them to overcome their weaknesses and inner chaos through continuous love and caring support from the seniors.
Cyber Family went offline in July, 2006 and it gave a chance to face-to-face interaction whose impact and love still flows online today. The model was favorably received not only in Korea, but also by the SeniorNet in the US, the Active Aging Network in the US as well as in Japan, China and Korea.
The participating schools and organizations include;
1. Pogok Middle School
2. Hwasan Middle School
3. Gohyun Middle school
4. Gamman Middle School
5. Manduk Middle School
6. Japan Osaka Keonguk Middle School
7. Busan Branch of the National Health Insurance Corporation
8. Senior Members of Wellageing

It took a great deal of not only our own effort, but also our network that supported us more than we expected. We sincerely thank every one who participated in the program and would like to acknowledge their strong encouragement. Thank you so much and let us make wellageing worldwide!

Elder Abuse Content Development

2007-01-18T01:19:00.000-08:00

The Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly has developed the contents on the Elder Abuse. This will provide the information on the elder abuse for those suffering from a disease and their family. The content is included in Doumnara Content operating under the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO).

KADO, Doumnara Content Demonstration
[Digital Times 2006.October 31]
Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) held a demonstration ceremony on the 30th of October. During the ceremony, KADO (CEO Yeonki-Son, www.kado.or.kr) demonstrated its Doumnara Content (www.itall.or.kr) development and pledged for the customer satisfaction.
The content includes; △ Leisure Culture △ Social Work Promotion-9 contents related to the challenged people, △ Elder Abuse △ Medical Encyclopedia △ Family-7 contents related to the elderly, and transportation system(Both) which account to 17 in total(new 5 contents, complementary 12 contents). Those contents will be available through Doumnara from the 6th of November.
During the “Customer Satisfaction Pledge,” 10 related organizations- namely the Korea Association for the Mentally Retarded (CEO Yeonchang-Bae) and Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly (Director. Donghee Han) - joined the ceremony.
`Doumnara’ is a special portal site for the challenged and the elderly which was initiated in November, 2002 to provide practical information online freely without local, economical, physical limitation.
[Hwa Young Sim]

"Second World Elder Abuse Awareness Day"

2007-01-18T00:21:00.000-08:00

International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse will hold the Second World Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Geneva, Switzerland. As the Korean Representative of the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, our institute will join the event by commemorating the day in cooperation with the Busan Metropolitan City on June 15.
The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day celebrated "The First World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" on June 15, 2006 at UN Headquarters, New York. The institute joined the event by holding the ceremony titled “My World, Your World, Our World- Free of Elder Abuse” on the same day at KT Building in Busan, Korea.

" The 100th anniversary of Alzheimer’s disease "

2007-01-18T00:07:00.000-08:00

2007 marks the 100th anniversary of Alzheimer’s disease. Many works have been done to cure this disease, but it was not enough to support for those daunting number of the Baby Boom Generation.
International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics have issued the statement on Alzheimer’s disease to raise awareness on the issue as well as assess what have been done and have to be done in face of the aged society. In light of this movement, the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly will promote its Social Drama which describes the affect of dementia on the patient and her family caused by Alzheimer’s disease. 2007 is the turning point for our institute, too. The 2007 Namhae Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific is to be held from May 16(Wed) to 18(Fri) and we’re happy to hold our conference at this important time.

Adieu 2006

2006-12-29T03:50:00.000-08:00

Adieu 2006
Our institute has done lots of works this year.
Inside, we have developed many programs for active aging and empowerment for older people such as Social Drama, Contents on Prevention of Elder Abuse and Re-designing Program for older person, informatization of the elderly, Dementia Support Program for Dementia Family, and Cyber Family Program which is really precious one for our wellaging.
Abroad, we held Active Aging Forum as well as introduced Namhae as a Healthy City in the 2nd General Assembly and Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities. Also, we visited SeniorNet in the USA and decided to cooperate for creative Senior Culture on the internet. Moreover, we are currently preparing 2007 Namhae Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific as the Secretariat Office. We appreciate all your kind concern and continuous encouragement with all our heart. We wish great blessing from God on 2007 for all of our valuable supporters. We sincerely wish you a Happy New Year and promise to do our best for wellaging in this world.

2006 December 20th Yeonje Silver College

2006-12-28T23:30:00.000-08:00

Yeonje Silver College in Gyeongsang National University reached the end of semester.
80 old people in Yeonje-gu and the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly have had class in Yeonje Silver College through Senior Re-designing Program from March to December this year.
Senior Re-designing Program is the program to help the seniors to find information in the cyber space to find the way for them to engage in social participation actively.
Also, it aims to help the seniors to realize the old age is the second life time to try new challenge through the program and prepare themselves for their second life.
The program progress helps the elderly to change their negative concept of society, and family as well as the uneasiness of his or her intrinsic & extrinsic change.
Besides social issues, they are encouraged to discuss how they feel about Senior Culture, develop relationship with their family and neighbors, and have positive attitude and active thinking on the environments around them.
Also, they learned passionately in the fact that aging in the informatization era is not calamity but opportunity to have a chance for society participation.
Especially, some of them felt happy by sending their family greetings and congratulation card via e-mail, giving an advice to the adolescents on the bulletin board at our Wellageing website.
We hope for all of the students in Yeonje Silver College who put Active Aging in practice this program for the past year that the program has helped design a new lifestyle.

Research in Namhae

2006-12-15T18:41:00.000-08:00

December. 12
Many officials in Namhae are putting their effort together on various training program and necessary arrangements to hold the 2007 ACAP successfully. Hence, Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly has conducted education meeting with them to let them know of the idea and strategy of Active Ageing.

December. 15
Health&Welfare Center in Namhae and Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly has arranged a research on a group of preliminary seniors(ranging from 40-64) who are about to enter legally senior age about their satisfaction level and attitude toward Namhae.
This survey will be a groundwork for more pratcical approach to making Namhae the best healthy city.

Press Release

2006-12-01T20:33:00.001-08:00

[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

2006-12-01T19:35:00.000-08:00

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.

2006-12-01T19:29:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-01T19:24:00.000-08:00

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

2006-12-01T19:17:00.000-08:00

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.

The Notice of 2nd Meeting of Dementia Family

2006-11-16T17:33:00.000-08:00

We will have the second meeting of dementia caregiving in this year. It was very supported and we shared information and emotional support from meeting of dementia family. In this year, we invited two caregivers who cared for dementia parents. We also invited community nurse for dementia patients. This program prepared for prevention of elder abuse and mistreatment without knowledge and information easily.

There will be discussion of gerontology among the older, middle ages and experts.

Date: November 24, 2006 (pm 2:00- 4:00)
Place: LG Metro APT Meeting Hall

Press 4

2006-11-11T00:02:00.000-08:00

[u Clean] Silver Cyber Mentor
We’re living in Internet-③We’re Cyber Family
[Moneytoday 11.03 (Fri)]
“I realize the seniors who have a lot of experience in life can play a mentor role for the adolescents through the Cyber Family Program. Although Internet can have negative effect on the adolescents, I’ll create the cyber space with warm humanity.”
Says Dr. Donghee Han, a director of Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly that runs the program ‘Cyber Family’
Dr. Han initiated ‘Cyber Neighbor’ Program in 2004 to defy the negative image of the senior by the communication with the adolescents when she directed Silver Informatization Training. The result fared well. With positive response and ardent interest from both the senior and the adolescent, ‘Cyber Family” Program was derived from ‘Cyber Neighbor’ Program to make new cyber family model for the intergeneration in the cyber space. National Youth Commission supported the program in accordance to hold the off-line Cyber Family Meeting Festival in 2006.
　 Currently, 15 silver instructor play a mentor role for the students from 7 schools. In addition, Japan Osaka Keonguk Middle School students also participated in the event. Also, the workers from National Health Insurance Corporation played “Cyber Father” role, and teachers from 7 schools took a role of “Cyber Teacher”. As a whole, Three generations were integrated by the online.
　Dr. Han says, “Internet is the useful source which allows the adolescents to share their problems honestly what they can’t tell their family, and for the seniors to post their encouraging reply with their experience in life thus creating the humanism in the digital world.” emphasizing that “Many adolescents are exposed to the side effect of the internet. But with this program, they can realize the valuable meaning of the family and use it as a positive tool for their lives.”
　 “Cyber Family’ Program attracts a great interest from abroad, too. It drew a positive reaction from America, Japan, and China.
　 Dr. Han remember the message posted by the college student saying that she visited site again a year after graduating from high school when she posted her problems on the bulletin board. Dr. Han hopes this program will become ‘the Resting Place’ for everyone participated on the website so they can visit the website even after a considerable span of time.

Press 3

2006-11-11T00:00:00.000-08:00

[u Clean]Seventeens to Seventies, “Now you’re talking”
[ We’re living in Internet-③We’re Cyber Family]
[Moneytoday2006.11.02 (Thu)]

"Hello. I’m a Seongji high school student and I’ve attended high school for a year.I like music so I’ve began piano lesson since last year. And the thing is that there’s very smaller time to play the piano after going to high school. I want to go to music school but my parents oppose the idea and my school environment is far from music. I did think about quitting school to study music only to find it too impractical. What should I do now?"(Seongji high school student, Da-hyeop, Kim)

　" Da-hyeop, you seem to have pretty big problem. I could understand how much you liked the piano through your writing. I’d support your idea if you had special talent and many years of experience. But, it seems to me that you started piano lesson too late. I want you to think about your talent in piano as well as your passion. Furthermore, your parents’ support and teacher’s counseling have to be considered before you make your own decision. I hope you can be clear and objective on this matter. "( Cyber Grandfa Jung-soo, Lee)

This is the conversation between grandfa in Busan and a student in Seongji high school in Gyeonggi Province. Although they don’t even know their faces, their conversation is more warm and serious than the one between a real grandfa and grandson.

　 ‘Cyber Family Bulletin Board’(http://www.wellageing.com) run by the Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly is the space for true intergeneration between old people in sixties or seventies and the adolescents.

　 ‘Cyber Family’ Program aims to make warmer digital world through the dialogue among the adolescents and the elderly with silver members in sixties to seventies as well as the students from 7 middle&high school nationwide. Students post their problems or stories to share with the seniors who kindly post their message in response.

◇" We’re Family through the internet"
　 Are seventeen can talk with seventies even though they don’t even know their faces? The answer is yes. Rather, if we take a closer look at the dialogue between the seniors and the adolescents we can find it more intimate than that between friends.

"Dear.In-Young and Byeol in Hwasan Middle School
You two are quite good friends for each other. Talk with your friend whenever there’s something uncomfortable otherwise the misunderstanding estranges you. Friendship can be undermined with time. Good friend is invaluable. Even if you can’t see what it means now, you shall when you get into the world. I hope you two can be friends forever." (Cyber Grandfa Kyuyeol-Kim)

" Reading your message, I think I gotta sort out all the misunderstanding. I’ll be friend with Byeol forever. Thank you. " (In-Young, Roh, Hwasan Middle School)

" Thank you for your concern. We sometimes make
a mistake and hate each other, but we’re still friends. Don’t worry about us. I’ll keep your advice in mind. Thanks. " (Seo-Byeol, Hwasan Middle School)

　 Seniors even play a role of life counselor which cannot be played by a teacher or the parents. As a result, students posted over 1min messages on the board ranging from study problem to interest in the other sex. Sang-an Park in Seongji High School says "At first, it felt awkward to talk with the old people in the cyber space. But I started to like very thoughtful replies from them so I visit website frequently beside myself. "

　 Once in a while, computer counseling is also conducted since many silver members working on the board have background in computer-related job. So, when a student asked about how to create a homepage, they replied with professional knowledge.

◇ Cyber Humanism on-line and off-line

　 This summer, the elderly and the adolescents gathered together off-line. The ‘Cyber Family Camp’ was held in Busan for 3 days in August with 60 students including those from Japan and 30 silver members. It was memorable time for both the seniors and the adolescents. For the students, they wiped out their prejudice against the elderly. For the seniors, they understood the new trend among teenagers and found their part in them.

　 Dr. Donghee Han, a director of Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly says, “We created Cyber Family Program to generate humanism in cyber space through communication among the various generations rather than emphasizing the side effect of the internet. Adding. “I hope all the generations can spread warm digital world through this program.”

Press 2

2006-11-10T23:54:00.000-08:00

Namhae’s `No Smoke Village’ Campaign Went Abroad

[Yonhapnews 2006.11.01 (Wed)]
Governor Yongje-Ha’s presentation in the `2nd General Assembly and Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities’ was well received
Namhae-gun participated in the `2nd General Assembly and Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities’ and presented the ‘No Smoke Village’ Campaign which was received favorably.

Governor Yongje-Ha made a presentation of the campaign and Dr. Donghee han, a director of Research of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly promoted the 2007 Namhae Active Ageing Conference in Asia Pacific to be held in Namhae next year.

And Eunju-Cho, a professor of Kosin university presented her research on stress surveyed among the officials in Namhae-gun.

Especially, ‘No Smoke Village’ Campaign drew high interest and evaluation as it distinguished itself from those of the other healthy cities.

Besides, Namhae raised its international stance by promoting its ‘Visiting Hangul Education’ and ‘Garlic Festival’. 17 national healthy cities including Namhae participated in this conference with 40 international healthy cities in West Pacific region to promote their healthy campaign and share academic exchange.

Namhae joined the international healthy cities approved by WHO in July, 2005. Namhae-gun has been promoting its ‘No Smoke Village’ Campaign in 10 villages since January, this year.

Press 1

2006-11-10T23:48:00.000-08:00

KADO, Doumnara Content Demonstration
[Digital Times 2006. 10.31 (Tue)]
Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion(KADO) held a demonstration ceremony on the 30th of October. During the ceremony, KADO(CEO Yeonki-Son, www.kado.or.kr) demonstrated its Doumnara Content(www.itall.or.kr) development and pledged for the customer satisfaction.
The content includes; △ Leisure Culture △ Social Work Promotion-9 contents related to the challenged people, △ Elder Abuse △ Medical Encyclopedia △ Family-7 contents related to the elderly, and transportation system(Both) which account to 17 in total(new 5 contents, complementary 12 contents). Those contents will be available through Doumnara from the 6th of November.
During the “Customer Satisfaction Pledge”, 10 related organizations will join the ceremony. Namely, Korea Association for the Mentally Retarded(CEO Yeonchang-Bae), Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly(Director. Donghee Han).
`Doumnara’ is a special portal site for the challenged and the elderly which was initiated in November, 2002 to provide practical information online freely without local, economical, physical limitation.

2007 Namhae ACAP Brochure(front)

2006-11-10T23:33:00.000-08:00

If you click a picture, you can see a picture more clearly in a large size.

2007 Namhae ACAP Brochure(back)

2006-11-10T23:22:00.000-08:00

If you click a picture, you can see a picture more clearly in a large size.

Cyber Neighbor & Cyber Family

2006-11-10T22:03:00.000-08:00

•Objectives

•To create the new filial piety culture suitable for the digital age as
a concept of humanity and family love lost by the dysfunction of cyber space and the changed
social identity with the elder and the adolescent
• To make the adolescent learn the true meaning of cyber family through the various programs
of off-line gathering with seniors and the middle generation which supports them to healthily
grow into a fine member of a society
• To distribute practices of healthy lifestyle throughout society by all members participated in
these off-line events and continue to support each other as well as find means to active aging
in old age. It will be a new image of senior
in Digital era

•Cyber Family Model

R&D Projects

2006-11-10T21:52:00.000-08:00

•The Family Support Program for Dementia Patients

Organized Family Support Program for Dementia Patients: This network was created to deliver lots of information to support the family who care about dementia patients. Without understanding dementia, most family make mistreatment on their parent with this disease. We developed social drama to educate family and the elderly to further comprehend the situation generated by dementia.

•The Prevention of Elder Abuse

Organized the Korea Information Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse: This network contains all necessary information to prevent elder abuse. It's also in connection with International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse so that it can gauge the international trend and offer information on elder abuse intervention. This has organized activities such as international symposium, international report and program exchange.

A w a r d

2006-11-10T21:49:00.000-08:00

President Rewards by the Korean Government for providing information & culture to older person in Korea (2005)

Summary of Institute's activities

2006-11-10T21:32:00.000-08:00

Aims of Institute

-To develop and design various programs for seniors
- To help old person find out what's available and where
to get more information
- To study and counsel in order for the elderly to lead active
life for the aged who are alienated from family &
community, who are impaired in physical and mental
health
- To educate practical assistant program for the elderly to
improve their quality of life
- To disseminate knowledge & information,
provide advisory service in cooperation with local health,
social services agencies and the other related agencies
- To prevent seniors isolation, loneliness, helplessness through
the informatization and empower them to create the new positive
image of the elderly

Major Activity

-Mission of Cyber Neighbor/ Cyber Family
-Developing & Information for Family Support Program
for Dementia Patients
-Constructing Korean Information Network for the Prevention
of Elder Abuse
-Design & Developing Program for Older Person by
Digital Technology

-Education Programs for the Redesign Employment, Prevention
of Elder Abuse, Successful Aging & Digital Aging
-Constructing New Model of Filial Piety

-Symposium and Workshop about the Issues of the Elderly held

-Exchange of International Elderly Culture & Issues

History

2006-11-10T21:18:00.000-08:00

•History of 2008

12. the 4th Meeting of Dementia Family
12. Opening of the Wellageing Center in Busan Metropolitan Namgue Library
10. Intergenerational Program the “2nd 1080 We are all family"
09. the 4th Active Aging Conference in Asia Pacific held in Shanghai
06. Workshop and the 3rd Ceremony of WEAAD
03~12. Launching of “Internet Navigate” Program
03. Visit to AABC Center in Japan

•History of 2007

10: Opening Wellageing Center
07-12:Developing Contents of "Active Aging" 06-12: New program for Discussion in Online among Cyber Family"06: Workshop and the 2nd Ceremony of WEAAD
06: Conference for Survey for Digital Leisure for Older Person05: Intergenerational Program "1080 We are all family"
05: Organized International Conference 3rd Active aging Conference in Asia Pacific in Namhae
03-12: Education for Older person in Yenji Community Senior Collage
03- 04: Education for older person " Silver Game in Cyber Spaces"
01-12: Program of Infomatizational Education : Program of Supporting for the Dementia Patients
01: Published "Cyber Family"

Activities of International Relationship
- Participation and Presentation at the 2nd WEAAD in Geneva WHO as committee member - Presentation at the Symposium of Active Aging Network In 8th Asia Oceania Gerontology Association in Beijing China
- Presentation at the University Osaka Industry and Lecture for graduated students of Dongjisa University in Kyoto

•History of 2006
08. The Offline Event of Cyber Family held
06. The Declaration of The 1st Annual World Elder
Abuse Awareness Day held
05.~12. Cyber Family opened
05.~10. Bravo-silver re-designing programs for work forces
for older persons developed
04.~10. The contents for the underprivileged informatization
strata(prevention of elder abuse) designed & developed
04.~09. The gender effect of finding the job for elder women
monitored
02. The community and technology learning center for the
seniors established

History of 2005
10. Participation in Shanghai International Festival of the Old Age Culture
10. Held The Grand Forum of three generations
09.~12. The Underprivileged Senior Education Program
06. Awarded The 17th Best Rewards from Government for efforts to develop informationaization for older persons
05.~10. Planned the contents for the underprivileged
04.~11. Information Sharing Exercise Campaign
03.~present. Cooperation with "Yeonje Silver University"
03. Visited Japan Municipal College Faculty Research Institute and Held the seminar
01.~present. Aid for Dementia Family Program

History of 1997~2004
2004.12 The 1st Korea International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse Symposium
2004.06 Held "The Digital Silver Speech Platform"
2003.12 Published the book titled "You're sixty, We're twenty"
2003.11 Participation in Shanghai Wellageing Festival
2003.10 e-Clean Korea Campaign
2003.06 The Grand Forum of three generations for the cleanup of Harmful Internet Sites
2002.10 Paticipation in 2002 Shanghai Wellageing Festival
2002.04~2003.12 Touring Education Program for the improvement of sociality of seniors
2001.11 Held 2001 Busan Wellageing Festival
2000.10~present Senior Informationization Training
1999.10 Held Busan International Symposium in commemoration of The Year of World Elder
1998.06.24~25 Held International Study Seminar of Korea, China, Japan
1997.03 Research Institute of Science for Better Living for the Elderly opened

What's Wellageing?

2006-11-10T18:57:00.000-08:00

It is my honor to introduce our Research Institute of Science for the Better Living of the Elderly. Our Institute pursues to improve the quality of the life of the elderly in rapidly changing social transitions of informatization and ageing.
We've announced various thesis and theories as well as nationally and internationally conducted practical researches. Especially, we have designed Prevention Programs for Elder Abuse, Cyber Neighbor Program for the active informatization of the elderly, Cyber Family Program showing practices concrete intergeneration, Re-Designing of the Elderly Program, Longlife Education Program are our main practices for designing for the elderly. These have attracted interests of the U.S.A, China, Japan and we interchanged information with those nations. In 2005, we were awarded the 17th President Rewards from Government for efforts to develop informatization for old persons and we work hard for the dissemination of the new digital filial piety culture, the social unity of the elderly, the R&D and exercise in the consolidation of capability of the elderly against any elder seclusion and abuse.
We developed Cyber Family as the space to truly understand the elderly. It is creating a new intergeneration program to create social filial piety and the positive image of old people. We seek to turn our society into the space for love and sympathy toward the seniors through the contents on the seniors and the family, the seniors and the adolescents, the seniors themselves.
We're creating a new ageing with digital technology, so that the cyber space will be filled with humanism through warm communication between the adolescents and the seniors. We’ll not leave the seniors in isolation, loneliness and helplessness anymore. Digital technology will help the old people to be empowered to adjust themselves in later life.
Also, we're developing more concrete programs to improve the quality of life in old age.

Please continue your valuable participation as well as keen interest in creating the Wellageing World. Thank you.

Han, Dong-Hee(Ph. D).
-Director, Research Institute of Science for Better Living of the Elderly