Explore the ChosunBiz New Year special series titled <53.9%, I am an older person with disabilities> as an interactive article. You can vividly experience the lives of older persons with disabilities, their caregiving families, and healthcare professionals.
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Aging and disabilities are not unrelated. Among registered persons with disabilities in South Korea, 53.9% are 65 years or older. The voices of older persons with disabilities and their caregiving families were a signal urging a bold shift in the paradigms of healthcare and welfare.
1. The path to becoming an older person with disabilities
Polypharmacy is a shortcut to frailty. This means that interactions between different medications can cause side effects.
Interactive view - 1. The path to becoming an older person with disabilities
2. I am an 80-year-old person with visual impairments
“Grandfather! Please play with me”
Elderly man Oh Soo lives with an artificial intelligence (AI)-based caregiving robot named 'Hyo-Soon'. Hyo-Soon, with her brown hair in pigtails, is smiling brightly.
Interactive view - 2. I am an 80-year-old person with visual impairments
3. I am a visiting physician in my 40s
Seung-Kook says.
Confirming the patient's address, skillfully driving through narrow alleys, and witnessing the daily life where loneliness gnaws at the patient’s health rather than the illness are not easy tasks.
Interactive view - 3. I am a visiting physician in my 40s
4. We are three sisters caring for our mother in her 90s
One night in 2012, my mother fell while going to the bathroom. The day after, as soon as the sun rose, I heard the devastating words at the hospital I rushed to.
“It is a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.”
Interactive view - 4. We are three sisters caring for our mother in her 90s
5. I am South Korea, unkind to older society
The special coverage team attempted to attach small speakers to the voices of older persons with disabilities, their caregiving families, and healthcare professionals. And at various reporting sites, they encountered a South Korea unkind to the older society.
Faced with the wave of becoming a super-aged society, South Korea is in a situation where polypharmacy oversupply and social and emotional infrastructure are weak.
Interactive view - 5. I am South Korea, unkind to older society