00:00Wang Chenyingzhi lives in Pingxi, a rural district nestled in the mountains of northern Taiwan.
00:22In 2024, she was diagnosed with dementia.
00:25It can make her forgetful, and she's afraid of the symptoms getting worse.
00:30Still, she's able to go on with her life, spending most of her days at the district's dementia center,
00:36and in the afternoons, venturing to a nearby pavilion to chat with friends.
00:41More than 35 percent of Pingxi's residents are over 65, or one in every three people,
00:48making it the oldest district by percentage of elderly residents in all of Taiwan.
00:54But Pingxi residents living with dementia, like Wang Chenyingzhi, can live comfortably here because of a unique network of care
01:02that involves not just its dementia center, but virtually every part of society.
01:08Together, the community has turned Pingxi into a dementia village, one of just a few in the world,
01:14and the only one that has formed organically around where people with dementia already live,
01:20rather than being purpose-built.
01:23Around 2017, the local health center started testing everyone in the community that was over 65 for dementia,
01:31around the same time that Taiwan's national government began pushing for dementia care.
01:35The center also began working with a larger hospital, around an hour away,
01:41to make the process of getting a formal diagnosis easier and driving people to their appointments.
01:47Later, they focused on education, informing everyone in the community about dementia and its effects,
01:54so that they could help care for their neighbors and friends.
01:57From the other house, it was considered the right to make an independent marriage.
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