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The Ministry of Health and Welfare (Minister Cho, KyooHong) said it will conduct the “2023 Cognitive Health (Dementia) Survey of the Elderly” from August 16.

“The 2023 Cognitive Health Survey of the Elderly” is an upgraded and integrated survey that combines two separate ones that had been previously conducted, namely a dementia epidemiological survey and a dementia fact-finding survey. The survey will connect a two-tiered epidemiological survey (1st and 2nd surveys) and a fact-finding survey (3rd survey).

During the survey, trained interviewers will pay a visit to homes, long-term care hospitals, and residential long term care facilities, where target individuals reside or stay, to conduct face-to-face interviews. In the second survey involving a dementia diagnostic test, the individual respondents will be required to visit a local dementia center (located at 256 public health centers nationwide) to fill out a questionnaire, including a detailed medical history, and take a dementia diagnostic test.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare will use the results of the survey to analyze ▲ dementia distribution and prevalence rates by gender, age, region, ▲ risk factors of dementia, ▲ financial costs associated with dementia care, and ▲ the care burden on care-givers of dementia patients.

Yeom Min Seob, Director General of the Bureau of Senior Policy at the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “With the aging population and a growing number of senile dementia patients, data collection to draw an accurate picture of reality is pivotal to set the policy agenda for prevention and management of senior dementia,” and also emphasized, “The survey will allow us to obtain an accurate overview of the senile dementia demography in the country, including the changing dementia prevalence rate and dementia care burden, and to reflect the outcomes in future policies.” ///