Edited by: Zahid Akhtar, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, United States
Reviewed by: Hu Qinhui, Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, China; Muhammad Jamil, University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan; Munish Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India
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In recent years, with the arrival of an overall aging population, how to provide for the elderly has become the focus of government departments and society. The traditional elderly care service model has problems such as backward construction of information platforms, low quality of elderly care services, and “digital divide”. For this reason, based on grassroots medical and health care, this paper improves the quality of elderly care services by establishing a smart elderly care service model. Through experiments, it can be found that compared with the traditional elderly care service model, the intelligent elderly care service model has an absolute advantage in the identification of nursing data. The recognition accuracy rate of the smart elderly care service model for all kinds of daily care data is above 94%, while the recognition accuracy rate of the traditional elderly care service model is below 90%. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the smart elderly care service model driven by primary medical care and health.
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A variety of pension problems arising from the aging process of the population continue to affect China’s social and economic progress. As urbanization continues to accelerate, the number of older adult people continues to grow, which has led to an increasing demand for older adults care services. This has added relatively high pressure on government departments and the pressure continues to rise (
With the aggravation of aging, nowadays, people pay more and more attention to senior care services. How to better build a smart older adults care model is a topic that many experts and scholars are studying, and research literature is also emerging in endlessly. Jin Xinyu proposed an organic connection with the three pension modes of institutional older adults care, community older adults care and home-based older adults care by taking diagnosis and treatment of large hospitals as the leading role and using the Internet. He integrated the new technology of artificial intelligence cloud diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of geriatrics to establish the older adults care model of “medical and nursing wisdom linkage” (
Some researchers have other views on the research of smart older adults care service model. Wen Zhi proposed a comprehensive hybrid aggregation method with personalized quantifiers to select older adults service providers, where the personalized quantifiers used cubic spline interpolation to determine the location weights of the criteria (
How to truly understand the new definition of intelligent older adults care should not only stay on the surface, but also emphasize its artificial intelligence and high-tech services. The wisdom of smart senior care is penetrated into all aspects of personalized older adults care, which requires close integration of smart technology and older adults care services. Primary health care drives are applied to various segments, such as older adults care products, services, management, operation, and supervision, to enrich the content of older adults services, thus building a synergistic smart older adults service model.
Based on the information technology such as Internet technology and wireless sensor network, the smart older adults system can help medical personnel and children to remotely monitor the daily life condition of the older adults and precisely locate their geographical location and the number of various health indicators, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of tragedies (
Features of the intelligent senior care service platform.
Under the integration and guidance of high-tech information technology, older adults care services have become more and more intelligent, detailed and diversified (
Smart senior care service is a service obtained from the transformation of information technology. Its service mode is shown in
Basic service mode of smart older adults care.
The concept of “platform” may have different understandings from different perspectives of the subject field. In the field of social economics, the concept of “platform” is defined from the perspective of industry exchange, and it is believed that “platform space” is a space or place to facilitate mutual or multi-faceted transactions, which can exist in the real world, such as large shopping malls. It can also exist in the Internet space, such as e-commerce platforms. The field of enterprise management defines the platform from market competition and enterprise relationship. The essence of the platform is to integrate resources to form a new system to improve its core competitiveness. Science and engineering disciplines emphasize the technical features of the “platform.” For example, the basic software platform is defined as an integrated system composed of operating systems, middleware, databases, security products and office suites based on the protocol rules between components.
In terms of smart senior care service model and existing research on smart senior care, the key of smart senior care service model includes two parts. The first is the platform itself, and the second is the smart older adults care service supply mode relying on the platform. As an intermediary between supply and demand, the smart senior service platform realizes its value based on active response and providing intelligent matching services to give reliable business management services. The architecture design of the platform itself reflects the technical characteristics of the platform. Scientific and reasonable system architecture is the material condition to promote the operation of intelligent senior care service platform. The existing scientific research in the field of business operation mode defines the platform business service mode as gathering a number of significantly different but interdependent target customers. The service provision mode of the smart older adults care service platform is in line with the characteristics of the platform’s business operation mode to a certain extent. To realize the core concept of the platform, it must be based on information integration and realized by processing a large number of terminal connection management data. The meaning of the smart older adults care service platform includes the business operation mode of the platform, which reflects how the platform creates wealth and gains income, and also includes the corresponding technical architecture. The main content is the overall architecture of the system, the main functional modules to realize the value demands of platform stakeholders, and the key technologies to support the operation of functional modules and realize value creation. The framework of smart older adults care service mode is shown in
Framework of smart older adults care service model.
The role of smart service platform for home-based older adults care mainly includes three aspects. First, all aspects of data and information collected are integrated and analyzed, and stored in a unified and standardized format for platform developers and customers to share. Second, the ability to purchase senior care services online is provided, enabling the older adults and service providers to complete service connection online. Third, the integration and optimization of older adults care service resources have been realized to assist the government in the management and supervision of the home-based older adults care industry. Therefore, the efficacy of the smart service platform for home-based older adults care mainly includes data information storage services, subsidy evaluation, evaluation and supervision, service personnel training, public welfare resource optimization and allocation management, etc. Details are shown in
The functions of the wisdom service platform for the older adults.
Intelligent senior care service platform includes market platform features and technology platform features. The characteristics of the technology platform should be based on information integration, and scientific and reasonable system architecture is the basis for operating the market platform. The market characteristics of the smart older adults care service platform, as the intermediary between the supply and demand sides, actively respond and accurately match services to provide safe and reliable operation management services, which is the starting point for the smart older adults care service platform to realize its value. The establishment of smart senior care service platform is indispensable to the investment of government departments and social capital. Therefore, its goal in making decisions is to maximize the benefits. When the marginal revenue of the smart senior care service platform is equal to the marginal cost, its own net revenue can reach the maximum. The calculation formulas are:
At this stage, although the smart senior care service is relatively convenient and efficient, the service resources are relatively scattered on the whole. Different types of information service platforms are unrelated to each other. A unified senior care service management system has not been built to integrate various types of senior care service resources to enhance the utilization rate of senior care service resources, thus avoiding the waste of resources (
The “digital divide” refers to the difference between the information rich and the information poor (
Medical and health resources refer to the social resources that people need to apply to carry out medical and health care activities. Broadly speaking, it refers to the general term of various economies of scale consumed or occupied by social development when enjoying medical and health services (
Schematic diagram of grassroots medical and health service system.
Basic medical services provided by primary medical and health institutions mainly include the following three aspects of knowledge. The first is general outpatient and emergency services, mainly including the treatment of common diseases, such as colds or chronic diseases. The second is basic public health management services. The third is proper referral advice, which is mainly for conditions that cannot be treated in primary care. According to the needs of patients, patients are transferred to appropriate designated medical institutions for diagnosis and treatment.
The older adults in City A were investigated, mainly about their basic information and their requirements for smart older adults care services. Five hundred and twelve questionnaires were collected and 500 samples were actually collected. The sampling was mainly based on the survey of some older adult people in 5 districts of City A, and the survey results are representative.
Basic information of sampling in City A.
Problem | Option | Number of people | 100% |
---|---|---|---|
Gender | Male | 240 | 48 |
Female | 260 | 52 | |
Age | 65–75 | 200 | 40 |
76–85 | 200 | 40 | |
Over 86 years old | 100 | 20 | |
Monthly income | Below 3,500 yuan | 200 | 40 |
3,501–4,500 yuan | 150 | 30 | |
4,501–5,500 yuan | 100 | 20 | |
Above 5,501 yuan | 50 | 10 | |
Education level | Illiterate | 220 | 44 |
Junior high school education or below | 240 | 48 | |
College degree or below | 30 | 6 | |
Bachelor degree or above | 10 | 2 | |
Residence status | Living alone | 110 | 22 |
Live with children | 100 | 20 | |
Live with a partner | 220 | 44 | |
Nursing home | 70 | 14 | |
Take care of yourself | Cannot take care of yourself at all | 80 | 16 |
Can’ take care of yourself | 300 | 60 | |
Can take care of yourself | 120 | 24 |
As shown in
For the survey on what demands the extracted seniors have regarding smart senior care services, the specific findings are shown in
Survey on older adults care service demand in City A.
As shown in
At this stage, despite the huge investment in senior care services, the utilization rate of older adults care service resources is not very high. There is even the phenomenon of overcapacity in some places for senior care services, with demand and supply for the senior citizens showing an unstable state. The drive for grassroots health care can integrate the older adults care service resources in various regions, which can help better understand the older adults care service models in various regions. The integration of various resources promotes the development of smart older adults care service model, which plays a role in promoting the growth of smart older adults care service in City A. In this paper, the intelligent older adults care service platform driven by primary health care was used to study the identification accuracy of the basic information of 100 older adult people. These data were tested 20 times. The experimental results were compared with those before the use of grassroots oriented health drive. After using the method studied in this paper for the experiment, the specific findings are presented in
Comparison of recognition accuracy for the older adults in nursing homes before and after the experiment.
As presented in
The smart senior care service model promoted by primary health care was more intelligent than the traditional senior care service. It can improve personalized senior care services, and also help medical personnel to monitor the physical condition of the older adults in real time according to the intelligent service platform. Based on the smart senior care service model, it can accurately identify the medical advice, medication dosage, nursing records, living habits, and preferences of the older adults. Its recognition accuracy was higher than that of the traditional senior care service model. It can also better verify the medication status of the older adults, so as to reduce medical negligence and safety accidents. The specific comparison findings are illustrated in
Comparison of the accuracy of the two service models in identifying various nursing data for the older adults.
As illustrated in
The smart senior care service model driven by primary health care has many advantages compared with the traditional senior care service model. An senior care home that is currently using the smart senior care service model in City A was randomly selected. Twenty staff members were selected from this senior care home to score and evaluate from the four aspects of effective integration of various service resources, realization of the senior multi service mechanism, promotion of the upgrading of senior care service products, and improvement of the construction of senior care professionals. These four aspects were numbered according to 1, 2, 3, and 4. The score was 1–5 points. The higher the score, the better the evaluation. The final result was the average of the scores given by 20 staff members, and the results were compared with the traditional service model. The specific comparison results are shown in
Comparison of two senior care service models.
As shown in
As the aging process of the population continues to increase, the needs of the older adults for senior care services are constantly rising. The wisdom older adults service model driven by primary health care is a combination of the state, social development, market, and other multi-participation and multi-faceted cooperation of the senior service system, the core of which is the construction on the wisdom older adults platform. Considering the needs of the older adults, intelligent goods have been developed, which not only need to meet the most basic needs of the older adults, but also pay attention to personalization. The advantages of primary medical care should be fully used to improve the requirements and the quality of senior care services. The senior care service industry chain has been continuously broadened to promote the healthy development of senior care services with grassroots medical care, and improve the participation and market competitiveness of the senior care market, thus creating a happy and healthy old age for the older adults. However, the research on smart older adults care services is a relatively cutting-edge topic, and the number of references is limited. In addition, the scientific research ability is not strong, and the research is not sufficient and detailed, so as to strive for further study in the future.
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The study was supported by Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education: Research on the morphological evolution of health poverty and the optimization of governance path under the background of rural revitalization.
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