Gurye-gun to Invest 34.1 Billion Won This Year to Promote a Happy City for the Elderly

Expanding Eligibility for Senior Center Supplies and Long-Term Care Worker Treatment Improvement Allowance
Expanding Elderly Social Participation and Emergency Safety Services for Solitary Seniors

[Gurye=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yuk Miseok] Jeollanam-do Gurye-gun announced on the 11th that it plans to invest a budget of 34.1 billion KRW to implement various elderly welfare policies to ensure a happy old age for the elderly in the area.

First, the scope of support for senior centers will be expanded.

Cooling equipment, which was previously provided only to registered senior centers, will now also be supplied to facilities equipped with senior center-like amenities but not legally registered as elderly leisure welfare facilities.

There are plans to rebuild the Mid-gi Senior Center in Toji-myeon, which had severe cracks raising safety concerns.

Support for the operation of elderly welfare facilities will also be sufficiently provided.

Through operational support for elderly living facilities and home-based elderly welfare facilities, the plan is to ensure that the elderly do not experience inconvenience when using these facilities.

Allowances previously given only to care workers will be expanded to all employees of elderly home welfare facilities, contributing to the improvement of treatment for long-term care workers and further enhancing the quality of long-term care services.

A customized elderly care service will be promoted to provide welfare checks and housekeeping services to vulnerable elderly who have not received long-term care grades, and the emergency safety assurance service for solitary elderly, which automatically reports emergencies through activity and fire detection, will be expanded.

Currently, to encourage social participation and leisure activities among the elderly, support is provided for presentations of 25 senior health program teams and activities of 8 senior clubs.

To expand income generation and social participation opportunities for the elderly, 937 elderly job positions will be provided.

The comprehensive social welfare center, which was submerged by last year’s flood, has completed restoration work, and a free senior cafeteria will operate three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays to supply nutrition to low-income elderly at risk of missing meals.

To promote a burial culture that efficiently uses land by moving away from a grave-centered burial system, the scope of crematorium usage fee payments will be expanded.

The county plans to pay usage fees for cases where graves located within Gurye-gun are exhumed and cremated, as well as for cremation of stillborn infants or infants who died within one year after birth.

Kim Sun-ho, the governor of Gurye-gun, said, “We will do our best to promote more diverse systems and policies so that the elderly, who are going through even more difficult times in the COVID-19 era, can have a guaranteed happy life.”

Gurye=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yuk Miseok kun5783@asiae.co.kr

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