Activities of community social workers

Adding life to years

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Summary

With the progress of our super-aged society and the change in household composition, seniors and their family members have diverse and complex concerns in their daily lives.
To deal with such concerns, our community social workers (SWs) are actively reaching out to seniors who are in need of care but do not know how to use the City’s services to provide them with expert advice. Community SWs also work with local community groups and tackle problems that some community group members face.
In cooperation with community case workers and staff of Community Comprehensive Support Centers and other organizations, community SWs are working to build a face-to-face consultation network in an effort to create a senior friendly community.

Key facts

Main target group: Both younger and older people (i.e. intergenerational)

Sector(s): Education, Health, Housing, Information and communication, Labor, Social protection

Desired outcome for older people:
Build and maintain relationships

Contact details

Name: Hiroyuki Arai

Email address: fj-houkatu-s@city.fujisawa.lg.jp

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Social or health care provider

Others involved in the project:

Local authorities

Older people’s involvement: Older people were not directly involved

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: Yes

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Looking back

Challenges:
To raise wider understanding of the role and functions of community social workers among local residents. In order to gain public understanding and trust towards CSWs, we have helped build face-to-face relations between community social workers and local organizations concerened, and also helped create opportunities for CSWs to be engaged in the community, with some help from local residents time to time.