Mokpo Island Senior Welfare Center Conducts 'Happy City Mokpo Life-Saving PLUS Project'

Effective for Improving Depression and Providing Emotional Support Due to COVID-19

Mokpo Island Senior Welfare Center is identifying elderly individuals experiencing depression or lethargy through public-private cooperation and providing tailored emotional services. (Photo by Mokpo Island Senior Welfare Center)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Ki-dong] Mokpo E-Land Senior Welfare Center (Director Kang Ju-ho) announced on the 3rd that it was selected as a supplementary operator for the Happy City, Mokpo City Life-Saving PLUS Project on August 20th and received 49.86 million KRW in support to provide services to 130 high-risk elderly individuals suffering from depression in the Mokpo area due to COVID-19. The center, along with Mokpo City Senior Welfare Center, Hadang Senior Welfare Center, and 23 administrative welfare centers, is jointly identifying and serving the beneficiaries as part of the Mokpo area’s senior customized care institutions.

The Happy City, Mokpo City Life-Saving PLUS Project is a service where public and private sectors cooperate to identify elderly people experiencing depression or lethargy caused by major changes in daily life due to the spread of COVID-19 and provide tailored emotional services.

In particular, this project selects 24 groups across Mokpo (4 to 8 people per group) and conducts small-scale programs at designated locations with thorough quarantine systems in place, ensuring program accessibility and safety amid the COVID-19 environment where dense face-to-face classes are difficult.

Looking at the program contents, it includes ‘Flower Mate,’ which soothes each other’s hearts through horticultural activities; ‘Online Trainer,’ which promotes health through a home training guidebook and health packages; and ‘Mind Quarantine Letter,’ a weekly letter containing program news delivered to participants’ homes. These well-planned programs aim to heal the elderly’s minds and foster greater harmony with friends, running once a week until December.

Kang Ju-ho, director of Mokpo E-Land Senior Welfare Center, said, “Through this public contest project, we will strive to discover socially isolated elderly people in the region who are emotionally struggling due to COVID-19 and realize a happy old age for the elderly through welfare services that cooperate between public and private sectors.”

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