Research on Innovation Path of Internet Plus Home-based Elderly Care Service Model

The community and home-based elderly care service system has been proved an effective pattern to mitigate the elderly care dilemma under the background of accelerating aging in China. In particular, the participation of social organizations in community and home-based elderly care service has powerfully fueled the multi-supply of elderly care. As the industry of the elderly care service is in the ascendant, the management lags behind, resulting in the waste of significant social resources. Therefore, performance evaluation is proposed to resolve this problem. However, a systematic framework for evaluating performance of community and home-based elderly care service centers (CECSCs) is absent. To overcome this limitation, the SBM-DEA model is introduced in this paper to evaluate the performance of CECSCs. 186 social organizations in Nanjing were employed as an empirical study to develop the systematic framework for performance evaluation. Through holistic analysis of previous studies and interviews with experts, a systematic framework with 33 indicators of six dimensions (i.e., financial management, hardware facilities, team building, service management, service object and organization construction) was developed. Then, Sensitivity Analysis is used to screen the direction of performance optimization and specific suggestions were put forward for government, industrial associations and CECSCs to implement. The empirical study shows the proposed framework using SBM-DEA and sensitivity analysis is viable for conducting performance evaluation and improvement of CECSCs, which is conducive to the sustainable development of CECSCs.

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Construction of the “Internet Plus” Community Smart Elderly Care Service Platform

Journal of Healthcare Engineering ◽

10.1155/2021/4310648 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Biying Wang ◽

Liangpeng Xu

Keyword(s):

Mobile Networks ◽

Population Aging ◽

Care Service ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Elderly Care ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

The Internet ◽

Service Model ◽

Care Services

With the rapid development of China’s market economy and the increasing trend of population aging, the traditional community elderly care service model has exposed more and more problems, such as the imbalance between supply and demand, single service, and lack of flexibility. In response to these issues, this research attempts to explore the possible paths and practical challenges of applying the Internet, Internet of Things, mobile networks, big data, and cloud computing to community elderly care services. This research believes that the construction of the “Internet Plus” community smart elderly care services platform is a general trend. Innovating the traditional community elderly care service model is conducive to fully integrating elderly care resources and improving the quality of elderly care services.

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China’s “Embedded Neoliberal” Home-Based Elderly Care? A State-Organised System of Neighbourhood Governance

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132413568 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (24) ◽

pp. 13568

Author(s):

Tianke Zhu ◽

Jian Jin ◽

Xigang Zhu

Keyword(s):

Care Service ◽

Elderly Care ◽

The State ◽

Community Based ◽

Governance Capacity ◽

Reciprocal Relationships ◽

Home Based ◽

State And Market ◽

Social Capitals

Embedding the program of elderly care into community-based service system seems to imply that China is reorganising capacities of neighbourhood governance. The program, created by transformation of neighbourhood governance, represented the state government’s frustration with the institutional embodiment of neoliberalism. However, stimulating neighbourhood organisations in elderly care service through involvement of market instruments demonstrated the neoliberal approach. In this study, we provided a research framework in the context of embedded neoliberalism to explore the dilemma of neighbourhood governance in China. By interviewing 100 elderly people in five neighbourhoods in Nanjing, China, we examined the home-based elderly care (HEC) model to analyse the changes in socio-spatial relationships of neighbourhoods. We argued that the state-organised system of market instruments as a form of neighbourhood system weaken the spontaneity of elderly residents in developing social capitals. Moreover, the emerging program is struggling to operate because the devolution of conservative governance capacity from the state to the neighbourhood does not provide resources, leading to the restrained market provision. Thus, this transformation of neighbourhood governance can only be effective if there is a clear complementarity relationship between the role of state and market instruments. The attention of further studies on neighbourhood governance needs to re-examine the reciprocal relationships in the context of declining neoliberalism.

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A Summary of Researches on the Quality of Home-based Care Services in China

Public Administration Research ◽

10.5539/par.v10n1p41 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 41

Author(s):

Yi-Luo Wang ◽

Ying Duan ◽

Ying Zhang

Keyword(s):

Service Quality ◽

Home Care ◽

Care Service ◽

Elderly Care ◽

The Elderly ◽

Home Care Services ◽

Care Services ◽

Home Based ◽

Home Based Care

With the increase of the aging of the population in china, the demand of the elderly continues to increase, which has brought great challenges to the elderly care service industry. As a new type of elderly care service, home-based care services directly affect the quality of the elderly’s health and daily life in their later years. Therefore, improving the product and quality of elderly care services has become the goal and purpose of the development of home-based care service for aged. This article uses Cite Space software to perform visual analysis of keyword clustering on existing literature, and concludes that scholars focus on the integration of medical care, social elderly care service system, service quality, and influencing factors, but the impact of service quality models and indicator systems is low. Then through the integration and induction of scholars’ research progress on home care services, existing problems in service quality, and service quality evaluation index systems, in order to continue to innovate on the basis of existing knowledge, improve the service quality index system, and focus on combing process indicators with outcome indicators effectively, thereby improving the quality of community home care services.

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The Practical Logic and Countermeasures of Community Home-based Elderly Care Service Under the Dimension of Innovative Big Data

Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.11648/j.hss.20200802.15 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 78 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shi Jing

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Care Service ◽

Elderly Care ◽

Home Based ◽

Practical Logic

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Exploring the determinants of synergetic development of social organizations participating in home-based elderly care service: An SEM method

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0244880 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (12) ◽

pp. e0244880

Author(s):

Qiuhu Shao ◽

Jingfeng Yuan ◽

Junwei Ma ◽

Hongxing Ding ◽

Wei Huang

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Service Industry ◽

Care Service ◽

Elderly Care ◽

Critical Role ◽

Equation Model ◽

Social Organizations ◽

Care Services ◽

Home Based ◽

Increasing Demand

The current aging service industry has problems in meeting the ever-increasing demand for the home-based elderly care service (HECS). Social organizations participating in HECS seems to be a promising way to address these problems but also raises new challenges, like uncoordinated cooperation among stakeholders, which could lead to low management efficiency and low service quality. However, Synergetic development can be promising to enhance the participation of social organizations and to improve social welfare. This study introduces a conceptual model to explore relationships between five determinants and synergetic development of social organizations participating in HECS. A structural equation model (SEM) based on questionnaire survey is used as a test methodology. The results indicated that stakeholder engagement plays a critical role in synergetic development in HECS, resource allocation can only be improved by institutional climate, and supervision capacity cannot facilitate information sharing. This study provides effective strategies and directions for the improvement of home-based elderly care services.

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