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It has been over 10 years since long-term care insurance was provided to help seniors with dementia and other diseases. Nearly twenty senior citizens are living together in a cramped space and spending their old age.

Reporter Nam Joo-hyun has reported on the site.

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At this nursing home in Gyeonggi-do, all twenty-five senior citizens live in a shared room.

There is one bed and a small chest of drawers in a space of 6.6 square meters per person.

93% of domestic nursing homes are shared rooms with no privacy at all.

[Elders living in nursing facility (75 years old): (Seniors in the same room) I smell a lot of diapers. Real smell of stools. I cover my nose with a blanket and go to bed.]

When we went to a nursing home near Stockholm, Sweden, we were very different.

All seniors live in a single room with respect for their privacy.

The spacious room, 30 square meters, is decorated to your personal taste.

The room next door is different.

You can bring home the furniture you used normally and live as familiar and comfortable as your home.

A 81-year-old grandmother with meningitis sequelae and hydration, with the help of a caregiver, cleans the bed and washes the bed.

[Kaiyanononen, 81 years old, living in a nursing facility: I am happy with my life in terms of food, because I can get the help I want.]

The Swedish government has made all care facilities single-person to improve the quality of life of the elderly.

[Anyone Shefboom / Huddinge City Welfare Officer: I think that the most desirable elderly welfare is to support the elderly to live as long as possible.]

Of course, there are many things that can be different from ours, such as the burden of insurance premiums and government welfare.

However, the greatest difference with us seems to be that even if we go to a nursing home in old age, it is the basic rights of human beings to maintain their life.

(Video Editing: Kim Joon Hee, VJ: Shin So Young)