Gerontolinguistics and Its Prospect in the Health Care Industry in Shandong

Acknowledgements: This paper was sponsored by 2019 Shandong Education Science Planning Project “A Study on the Predicament and Countermeasures of College English Education in China from the Perspective of Ecology of Education” (Item No.: BYGY201917). Zhang Yan, M.A., associate professor, School of Humanities and Foreign Languages, Qingdao University of Technology. Guo Yin, Ph.D., professor, School of Humanities and Foreign Languages, Qingdao University of Technology. Gerontolinguistics is the combination of gerontology and linguistics, with the elderly language health as the core of its research. A brief investigation of the health care industry situation in Shandong province, China indicates that the government has provided political and financial support and wealthy practical resources for the application of gerontolinguistics, which in turn helps release the pressure caused by the increasingly serious problem of population aging. A thorough review of the academic research status and trends domestic and international shows that research on the language health of the elderly is underway, but not comprehensive enough. The paper suggests multidisciplinary collaboration to promote gerontolinguistics research and puts forward several recommendations in order to provide academic support for the elderly language health research and promote health care industry of Shandong and China.