Cho Hyun-jang, President of the Korea Health Promotion Institute; Kim Mi-gon, President of the Korea Senior Workforce Development Institute; Lee Tae-soo, President of the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs; Noh Dae-myung, President of the Korea Social Security Information Service; Jeong Hae-sik, President of the Korea Self-Support Welfare Development Institute (from left).
The Korea Health Promotion Institute, Korea Senior Workforce Development Institute, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea Social Security Information Service, and Korea Self-Support Welfare Development Institute announced on the 6th that they have signed a multilateral memorandum of understanding (MOU) to "revitalize senior life."
This agreement was made to revitalize senior life through inter-agency information exchange focusing on social participation, health promotion, and income security. To this end, they will promote information (data) exchange and knowledge sharing for mutual development of the institutions, exchange of outstanding personnel and benchmarking cooperation among the signatory institutions, as well as joint projects and research and development for revitalizing senior life.
Taking this MOU as an opportunity, the five institutions expect to achieve a synergistic effect by sharing information held by each institution for the happy senior life of the elderly and pre-elderly generations and by promoting joint research. The Korea Health Promotion Institute plans to actively utilize opportunities for information exchange and joint research with the signatory institutions by sharing its experience in health promotion projects for seniors, such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things)-based senior health management projects and home health care projects.
Cho Hyun-jang, president of the Korea Health Promotion Institute, said, "As of December last year, the proportion of the elderly population in our country was 18.0%, and it is expected to reach a super-aged society with an elderly population ratio of over 20% by the first half of 2025." He added, "As the elderly population increases, senior life becomes more important, and we will do our best to seek effective joint projects and cooperative tasks through the cooperation of the five signatory institutions so that this MOU can contribute to revitalizing senior life."
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