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Review
. 2020 Sep 3;20(1):318.
doi: 10.1186/s12877-020-01737-y.

Smart home for elderly care: development and challenges in China

Quan Zhang  1 , Meiyu Li  2 , Yijin Wu  3
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Smart home for elderly care: development and challenges in China

Quan Zhang et al. BMC Geriatr. .
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Abstract

Background: China's smart home for elderly care emerged in 2008, and had went through four developmental stages which consists of seed stage, start-up stage, development stage and popularization stage.

Main text: The status quo and development of smart home for elderly care in China is reviewed, and suggestions are provided on how to further develop China's smart home for elderly care. The focus of China's policies on smart home for elderly care were different during those four developmental stages. Compared with Western countries, China's smart home for elderly care is a policy-driven product rather than technology-driven or demand-driven one. In addition, it is quasi-public goods rather than private goods. These unique characteristics of China's smart home for elderly care not only become the driving force of its rapid development, but also bring many challenges to its development, such as the insufficient demand, the disorderly development, and the waste of public and private resources.

Conclusions: Although great progress has been made in China's smart home care, much efforts are still needed to further advance its development. The technical standards for the elderly care services should be formulated as soon as possible and the existing public and private smart home for elderly care platforms should be combined. Enterprises involved in smart home care services should be encouraged to develop new technologies to reduce the cost of products and services provided by smart home for elderly care.

Keywords: China; Elderly care; Smart home.

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