Changwon Special City and Daehan Senior Citizens Association Changwon Branch, Neighborhood Senior Center Neighbor Care Agreement

Mayor Hong Nampyo: "Thank you for sharing the intention of the elderly to firmly protect their neighbors"

On the 8th, Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam held a neighborhood senior center neighbor-watching agreement ceremony with the chairpersons of the Korea Senior Citizens Association branches in Changwon, Masan, and Jinhae to establish a cooperative system for preventing solitary deaths and discovering and supporting welfare blind spots.

Changwon City - Korea Senior Citizens Association Changwon Branch Neighborhood Senior Center Neighbor Care Agreement.

Through this agreement, senior center members will be assigned the role of neighbor watchers to report at-risk households to the administrative welfare centers. Changwon City will conduct visits to the reported at-risk households and actively connect them with public and private resource services, mutually cooperating to strengthen the discovery of welfare blind spots.

Additionally, “Neighborhood Neighbor Watcher Senior Center Designation Stickers” with the administrative welfare center phone numbers will be distributed to 1,027 senior centers in Changwon City. These stickers will be posted so that members can immediately report when they find neighbors in difficulty. Education on preventing solitary deaths and discovering economically vulnerable households will be conducted through administrative welfare centers and senior citizens association branches.

Hong Nampyo, Mayor of Changwon Special City, said, “I am grateful that our local seniors have joined in the intention to firmly protect their neighbors. By paying attention to those around us and neighbors watching over and caring for each other, I believe we can create a happy Changwon where no one is left isolated.”

The Neighborhood Senior Center Neighbor Watcher program is a human safety net project aimed at preventing solitary deaths and discovering welfare blind spots. It involves senior center members familiar with local conditions reporting neighbors in difficulty, actively involving seniors living alone in senior center programs, and checking on neighbors with mobility difficulties.

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