[Silver Bridge] Vol. 5 · Chapter 24 · The daughter-in-law in a Seoul basement flat and the Korean and Chinese families facing dementia care

1. In an ongoing column on caring for family members with dementia, the writer reports interviews with a daughter-in-law in a Seoul basement flat and an elderly couple on the outskirts of Shanghai.
2. The writer compares the two countries' care systems, citing statistics that 970,000 people in Korea and 16.9 million in China were living with dementia in 2025.
3. Korea introduced its National Dementia Responsibility System in 2017, and from 2025 families can use a family leave system with 11 days of short-term care and 22 visits of all-day home care.

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