Rural Smart Elderly Care Model: China’s Development and Challenges

Abstract

Under the background of moderate aging population and rapid development of intelligent technology, smart elderly care has become one of the effective solutions to the problem of home-based care in rural China. The smart elderly care in China’s rural areas is still in the exploration stage, and academic research divides the smart elderly care into smart home-based elderly care service, smart medical elderly care service and smart institutional elderly care service. The government, enterprises and social organizations play different roles in providing smart elderly care services, and there are mainly three supply modes. The smart endowment model still faces many challenges in China’s rural practice in the future. For example, challenges in the whole process of digital management, big data sharing and integration technology, as well as challenges in the ethical aspects of the elderly’s adaptation to smart elderly care model, optimization of smart elderly care equipment, and diversified demands for smart elderly care of the aged. In order to meet the challenges in the future, this paper puts forward countermeasures and suggestions from the following five aspects: promoting the effective integration of digital technology and elderly care system, establishing a standardized system for smart elderly care, enhancing the acceptance of intelligent elderly care model for the aged, promoting the diversification of products and services for smart elderly care, and delaminating to meet the needs of diversified elderly care services for the aged. In order to promote the steady development of intelligent elderly care service in China’s rural areas.