Osan City Rolls Up Sleeves to Prevent Isolation and Deaths of Single-Person Households

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Choi Ki-ho] Osan City has taken action to prevent isolation and deaths among single-person households.

On the 12th, the city held a meeting with project managers from Osan Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, Osan South Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, Osan Segyo Comprehensive Social Welfare Center, and city officials, committing to actively respond to welfare needs of rapidly growing single-person households in recent times.

During the meeting, officials focused on discussing subject discovery and actual conditions surveys for socially isolated households in need of forming neighborhood networks, and improvement measures for network building necessary for welfare service support and coordination.

Additionally, they agreed to establish a preventive cooperation system to preemptively prevent isolation and deaths among single-person households, and to make every effort to provide diverse welfare support for single-person households.

Meanwhile, the ‘Support Project for Prevention of Isolation and Deaths of Single-Person Households’ is operated with prize money awarded for Osan City’s selection as an excellent city in the 2022 Ministry of Health and Welfare Regional Welfare Project Evaluation. It is expected to provide significant vitality to welfare support for single-person households with specialized mobile health and welfare services tailored to Osan City in accordance with an advanced welfare city.

Jeon Wook-hee, head of the City Hope Welfare Department, said, “Through this meeting, we will continue to expand welfare service support measures that are substantively helpful to single-person households with high levels of depression and isolation, and will do our best to discover vulnerable groups in welfare blind spots.”