How can smart elderly care better understand aging
2025-07-01
[Keywords] Smart Elderly Care [Story] "I want to ask about the weather today and I hope you can bring some vegetables over." In Furong South Road Community, Chiling Road Street, Tianxin District, Changsha, Hunan, elderly person Wang Wenying said her needs to an artificial intelligence (AI) terminal device. In no time, the staff at the elderly care service station delivered the dishes to the elderly person's home. With just one shout, service arrives. "AI+" makes home-based elderly care much more worry free. With the introduction of a series of policies supporting the elderly care service industry, the "AI+Elderly Care" model, in which communities provide venues and social enterprises provide services, is being promoted in multiple communities in Changsha. 【 Comment 】 With the help of artificial intelligence terminal devices, Ms. Chen, an elderly person living alone in Changsha County, Hunan Province, has a fulfilling and convenient day: at 9 am, the elderly assistants at the community home-based elderly care service station come to her home to provide services, not only cleaning and rehabilitation massage, but also accompanying and chatting; At 2pm, go to the community home-based elderly care service station and learn ballroom dance from the teacher; At 6:00 p.m., the evening party in the community began. I asked my sisters to have a look... Ms. Chen's story reflects the latest progress in China's exploration of smart pension. In today's accelerating aging population, how can we better provide 310 million elderly people with a sense of security, fulfillment, and happiness in their old age? From the exploration of "AI+elderly care" in Changsha, to some elderly care institutions in Tianjin equipping robots to accompany the elderly in singing and playing chess, from a senior welfare home in Shanghai organizing elderly people to learn how to use artificial intelligence software, to a community in Hangzhou, Zhejiang introducing robot dogs that can accompany the elderly for walks, a technology driven transformation of elderly care services is unfolding in vast urban and rural areas. In addition to basic functions such as taking care of the elderly's medication, eating, and monitoring their health status, today's smart elderly care also emphasizes interaction such as chatting and entertainment, in order to strengthen emotional companionship, dispel the loneliness and solitude of the elderly, and add more color to their lives. This is undoubtedly progress. Currently, the elderly population in China has increasingly diverse, differentiated, and personalized elderly care needs, and smart elderly care provides new supply to meet these new demands. In December last year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform and Development of Elderly Care Services", proposing to accelerate the development and application of elderly care technology and information technology. Undoubtedly, smart elderly care can effectively improve the service efficiency and quality of the elderly care industry, but this does not mean pursuing "mechanical substitution". To truly make smart elderly care a driving force for the lives of the elderly, it is necessary to make good use of the power of technology and delegate basic, tedious, and repetitive tasks to intelligent devices for high-quality and efficient completion. It is also important to pay attention to the training of nursing staff and other professionals, so that they can devote their energy to providing more personalized and refined services for the elderly, and comprehensively enhance their elderly care experience. Only with the efficiency of technology and the warmth of emotions can we make the lives of the elderly more quality. It should also be noted that smart elderly care is on the rise, but at present, there are still problems such as high prices of smart devices, lack of standards, and insufficient adaptability to aging. The effectiveness of some "black technologies" for smart elderly care in practical applications still needs further testing. Various factors constrain the acceptance of smart elderly care by the elderly and their families. To overcome these bottlenecks, we must prioritize services. Putting the elderly first, optimizing operations and improving functions based on their living scenarios and usage preferences, can truly make these products and services a good helper for the elderly and open up new space for industrial development. Enabling technology to better provide for the elderly requires policy guidance and industrial support. As more and more policies provide protection and more entities invest in it, smart elderly care will continue to improve service diversity, accuracy, and accessibility, winning more and more praise, and accelerating the warm scene of elderly care becoming "enjoying old age" into reality. (New Society)
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang er dong
Source:people.cn
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