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Source: Careyounews (careyounews.org) Trend 1. 100 Days of Integrated Care: Nurses Go Home, and Local Governments Establish Their Own Models Having marked 100 days since its implementation, Integrated Care is beginning to take root across the country, centered around public health centers and home medical care. Community-based Integrated Care is once again drawing attention following the news that Hyun Soo-yeop, the First Vice Minister of Health and Welfare, personally visited the Anseong City Public Health Center in Gyeonggi Province yesterday to inspect the site of the Integrated Care initiative. The core of the Anseong model is a method in which a dedicated team centered at the public health center establishes a home nursing center, and nurses visit patients' homes. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced plans to expand this model nationwide, and the Vice Minister personally pledged to "continue institutional and financial support." Yesterday alone, news was reported in succession regarding the expansion of Sejong City's '365 Warmth Integrated Care,' the full-scale implementation of Gwanak-gu's 'Gwanak-type Integrated Care,' health management cooperation agreements among Incheon's Michuhol-gu, Yeonsu-gu, and Jemulpo-gu, the expansion of care services for the disabled in Goyang City, and the launch of integrated care for preventing lonely deaths in Baegot 1-dong. These signals indicate that integrated care has entered a turning point, moving beyond experiments in specific leading local governments to establish itself as a nationwide system. However, voices from the field conveyed yesterday do not allow for mere optimism. Reports revealed that half of people with developmental disabilities remain in care blind spots, and it was pointed out that mental health support is still outside the scope of integrated care. At the Medical Social Work Symposium, a sober assessment was conducted on what and how much the field has changed since the implementation of the Integrated Care Support Act. It was also publicly discussed for the first time yesterday that reforms to death diagnosis and procedures for unnatural deaths must accompany the realization of home-based dying. The past 100 days were a time for the system to unfold its blueprint; now, the time begins to fill the gaps with care that people actually experience. Trend 2. The response to dementia is expanding simultaneously across finance, community, and new drugs, and the defense lines for the era of one million dementia patients are becoming multi-layered. Loss of smell is becoming a signal of brain health issues, and following education level, diabetes, and hearing loss, the ability to detect odors is emerging as an early warning indicator for dementia. Yesterday, reports related to dementia poured out with an unusually broad scope, encompassing medicine, finance, community, and the system. The Asia Business Daily warned yesterday that symptoms can begin 15 years prior to a diagnosis and that even those in their 30s and 40s cannot be complacent. E-Today reported yesterday that a decline in olfactory function is a red flag for brain health and that olfactory training has a tangible effect in preventing dementia. The Chosun Ilbo and the Herald Business Daily analyzed the greatest risk factors for dementia by country and reported yesterday that in the case of Korea, the low educational attainment of the elderly population is identified as the biggest risk factor. The perception of dementia is rapidly shifting from being merely a disease of old age to a chronic crisis that requires management throughout one's entire life. Another notable trend from yesterday is that finance and technology have fully entered the fray as new shields in the fight against dementia. It was reported yesterday that Shinhan Bank strengthened its safety net to protect dementia patients' financial assets from phishing using AI, and that the fintech company Coocon has embarked on building public financial infrastructure by participating in the National Pension Service's Dementia Relief Asset Management Service. Movements were also detected on the front lines of new drug development yesterday. Japan's Eisai saw its stock price surge as its dementia treatment benefited from the favorable winds of early treatment approval in the U.S., and news was also reported yesterday that AriBio's oral dementia drug, AR1001, is approaching a critical turning point in its Phase 3 clinical trials. An innovative technology from a Korean startup that utilizes the brain's self-cleaning ability to automatically remove protein debris also received attention yesterday. Community-level responses also materialized yesterday. In Uiseong, North Gyeongsang Province, the 'Dementia Care Village' model, where residents care for residents, has garnered attention for combining Nordic walking with lunch sharing. Meanwhile, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, signed an agreement yesterday to establish a dementia-sa...