Not long ago, the Ministry of industry and information technology and the China Disabled Persons' Federation issued the guidance on promoting information accessibility to encourage the acceleration of the development of the smart elderly care industry, promote the excellence and strength of a number of smart health elderly care service brands, and promote the pilot demonstration of smart health elderly care. The introduction of the opinions has once again aroused the attention of the society to the intelligent elderly care and the development of the elderly care health service industry relying on scientific and technological innovation.

Pension is related to people's livelihood and closely related to the vital interests of the people, in which scientific and technological innovation has great potential. In November last year, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the national medium and long term plan for actively responding to population aging, which specifically called for strengthening the scientific and technological innovation ability to respond to population aging, improving the scientific, technological and information level of elderly services, strengthening the scientific and technological support for elderly health, and strengthening the research, development and application of assistive technologies for the elderly, It defines the path and provides support for scientific and technological innovation to play a greater role in elderly care service security.

Supporting the elderly with science and technology is to comprehensively apply scientific and technological means to carry out new elderly care services. In recent years, from new products such as health detection and monitoring and elderly care monitoring to new services such as intelligent integrated management of chronic diseases and remote intelligent combination of medical care and elderly care, intelligent elderly care is developing rapidly. In particular, wearable devices such as fall detection, first-aid rope pulling and vital signs monitoring are widely welcomed by elderly consumers. The wide application of science and technology in the field of elderly care will not only greatly improve the scientificity and refinement of the elderly care industry, but also effectively promote labor employment and produce broader social benefits with the rapid development of the intelligent elderly care industry.

At present, China's smart elderly care industry is still in the early stage of development. It needs to be further improved in terms of product R & D capability and service capability, industry standard formulation and market supervision. In particular, many elderly people do not understand information technology and use less Internet. The resulting "digital divide" has a certain negative impact on the development of the industry. This reminds us that we need to think about and promote the development of the industry from the dimensions of awareness, acceptability and operability of the elderly.

The key to supporting the elderly with science and technology is to adapt to the old. To promote the development of "science and technology + elderly care", in the final analysis, we should take the needs of the elderly as the starting point and the experience of the elderly as the foothold to innovate technologies, design products and optimize services. Aiming at the multi-level and diversified health and elderly care service needs of the elderly, we will certainly promote the deep integration of "science and technology" and "elderly care", release the multiplier effect of industrial development, and bring real sense of acquisition, happiness and security to the elderly.

Source: People's daily