Medical Staff Visit Homes... Yeongdeungpo-gu Operates 'Long-term Care Home Medical Center'

Operation of 'Janggi Nursing Home Medical Center' Providing Home Visit Medical, Nursing, and Integrated Care Services
Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers Offering Medical Prescriptions, Treatments, Consultations, and Welfare Resource Connections
Promoting Healthy Aging at Home Instead of Facility Admission... Enhancing Quality of Life and Ensuring a Happy Old Age

Yeongdeungpo-gu (District Mayor Choi Ho-kwon) announced that it will conduct a pilot project for the ‘Long-term Care Home Medical Center,’ providing ‘integrated medical and long-term care’ by visiting the homes of long-term care beneficiaries in partnership with a Korean medicine clinic.

The ‘Long-term Care Home Medical Center’ is a project where doctors, nurses, and social workers visit the homes of long-term care insurance beneficiaries who have difficulty visiting medical institutions due to mobility issues, providing integrated care including medical treatment, nursing, and caregiving. The aim is to enable seniors to spend their later years healthily at home without being admitted to nursing hospitals or facilities.

The district signed an agreement with ‘Woorine Korean Medicine Clinic’ (Daerim-ro 76), which was selected in the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s ‘Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project Contest,’ and will carry out the project until the end of the year.

The support target has been expanded to include long-term care grades 1 to 5 and cognitive support grades, allowing seniors with dementia who have difficulty visiting hospitals to receive care at home.

Once selected as a support recipient, they will receive customized care services ranging from one to two monthly visits by a team composed of doctors, nurses, and social workers to welfare linkage. Doctors provide medical prescriptions based on individual treatment, nurses offer nursing care, dietary, and lifestyle consultations, and social workers identify care and caregiving needs through regular counseling and connect them with community welfare resources.

The district emphasized that through the ‘Long-term Care Home Medical Center,’ it is possible to prevent the worsening of diseases among seniors and, in the long term, promote happy aging and improved quality of life.

Additionally, it explained that the project improves medical and welfare accessibility for seniors who have difficulty visiting medical institutions and welfare facilities and helps establish a community-centered integrated care network.

Choi Ho-kwon, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, said, “Through this project, we hope to expand opportunities for seniors to live in their original homes and receive continuous medical services,” adding, “As we approach a super-aged society, Yeongdeungpo will take the lead in providing caregiving services that firmly support our seniors.”