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Opportunities and challenges for Chinese elderly care industry in smart environment based on occupants’ needs and preferences

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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by Qingfeng Meng, Ziming Hong, Zhen Li, Xin HuXin Hu, Weixiang Shi, Jun WangJun Wang, Kai Luo
New developments in intelligent devices for assisting elderly people can provide elders with friendly, mutual, and personalized interactions. Since the intelligent devices should continually make an important contribution to the smart elderly care industry, smart services or policies for the elders are recently provided by a large number of government programs in China. At present, the smart elderly care industry in China has attracted numerous investors’ attention, but the smart elderly care industry in China is still at the beginning stage. Though there are great opportunities in the market, many challenges and limitations still need to be solved. This study analyzes 198 news reports about opportunities and challenges in the smart elderly care industry from six major Chinese portals. The analysis is mainly based on needs assessment for elderly people, service providers, and the Chinese government. It is concluded that smart elderly care services satisfy the elders’ mental wants and that needs for improving modernization services are the most frequently mentioned opportunities. Also, the frequently mentioned challenges behind opportunities are intelligent products not being able to solve the just-needed, user-consumption concept and the ability to pay, which is the most frequently mentioned challenge. The results of this study will enable stakeholders in the smart elderly care industry to clarify the opportunities and challenges faced by smart elderly care services in China’s development process and provide a theoretical basis for better decision making.

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Journal

Frontiers in psychology

Volume

11

Article number

1029

Pagination

1 - 10

Publisher

Frontiers Research Foundation

Location

Pully, Switzerland

ISSN

1664-1078

eISSN

1664-1078

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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