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Preventing Solitary Deaths with AI: MPVA Joins Hands with Private Sector to Launch Welfare Check Project for Senior Heroes
Source
Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs
Date
2024.04.01

• At 15:40 on Tuesday, 2nd, a memorandum of understanding will be signed at the War Memorial by Vice Minister of MPVA, Asia-Pacific President of Qualcomm, and CEO of Lucis.


• The existing smartphone application service will reach out to 1,200 elderly national merit recipients living alone by the end of April, with automatic welfare checks and emergency reporting system.


• Minister Kang Jung-ai: "We will do our best to implement ‘Patriots and Veterans Affairs in our Everyday Lives’ by strengthening welfare support through public-private cooperation so that elderly national merit recipients living alone can have a healthy retirement".

Attachments
240401 PR (Solitary Death Prevention).pdf