Yangcheon-gu Ends Care SOS Service + Operates Additional Care Yangcheon 'The Dolbom'

Providing 'Yangcheon TheDolbom' to existing Dolbom SOS service users needing additional care
After the end of temporary home care service, 80 extra hours supported with 'Ilsang Deoham', and 'Donghaeng Deoham' offers 200,000 KRW additional transportation support per companion
During holidays, 300 people receive special holiday meals with 'Hansang Deoham' added to existing meal delivery

Lee Gi-jae, Yangcheon District Mayor, delivering lunchboxes by visiting households targeted by Care SOS.

Yangcheon-gu (District Mayor Lee Gi-jae) announced that starting this year, it will newly implement the ‘Yangcheon The-Dolbom’ project, which provides additional care support even after the existing Dolbom SOS service ends, to eliminate blind spots in care.

The ‘Yangcheon-type The-Dolbom,’ launched for the first time this year, is a district-specialized project designed to fill the gaps caused by the temporary and short-term support of the existing Dolbom SOS. It consists of ▲ Daily Addition (additional temporary home care service support) ▲ Accompaniment Addition (additional transportation cost support when using an ambulance) ▲ Holiday Table Addition (providing special holiday meals during holiday periods).

First, the ‘Daily Addition’ service is a project that provides additional temporary home care services within a limit of 80 hours per person and up to 1.6 million KRW for residents who need extra care after the Dolbom SOS temporary home care service ends but are not linked to other public care systems (such as Long-term Care Insurance for the Elderly or Disability Activity Support Service). Including the existing Dolbom SOS service of up to 60 hours, users can utilize up to 140 hours in total.

The district plans to use ‘Daily Addition’ to fill the gap from the application period to the provision of services for long-term care insurance (which can be applied for three months after surgery or discharge) and disability activity support services (which take about 60 days for disability grade assessment) that are linked after the Dolbom SOS service.

In fact, Mr. A, an elderly person in his 80s living alone in Sinjeong 7-dong and belonging to a low-income bracket, suffered a pelvic fracture in November last year, making independent daily life difficult. Mr. A was linked as a Dolbom SOS temporary home care service recipient in December, but due to worsening dementia symptoms requiring 24-hour care, he exhausted his annual individual usage limit of Dolbom SOS by mid-January this year.

A district official explained, “While waiting about 10 more days for the long-term care grade to be issued, we decided to additionally support temporary home care services to minimize the care gap for Mr. A.”

Second, the ‘Accompaniment Addition’ service is a project that provides additional transportation cost support up to 200,000 KRW per person for those among existing Dolbom SOS accompaniment support service users who have severe disabilities or are bedridden and require ambulance transport.

The district stated, “People with physical function decline due to illness, old age, or disability often lack transportation when going out and mainly use private ambulances, which are tens of times more expensive than regular taxis. The annual transportation cost limit of 120,000 KRW per person under Dolbom SOS is insufficient. Going forward, through Yangcheon-gu ‘The-Dolbom’ service, we expect to provide additional transportation cost support to 40 people.”

Third, the ‘Holiday Table Addition’ service provides special holiday meals to residents facing care absence during holiday periods. The target group includes 300 users of the Dolbom SOS meal delivery service. Especially during this Lunar New Year holiday, 120 people will receive special lunchboxes composed of holiday foods along with greeting letters to alleviate social isolation and strengthen emotional care.

Lee Gi-jae, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, said, “I hope that through the Yangcheon ‘The-Dolbom’ service, residents who need more care will receive better care support. We will proactively provide customized care services considering the users’ situations to create a warm and tightly-knit city of Yangcheon that embraces socially vulnerable people.”