Author(s)

Zihan Hong ¹, Jiayi Dong ¹, Lina Zhang ¹, Lin Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, 315211, China

Corresponding Author

Zihan Hong

ABSTRACT

Regarding how to increase the acceptance and promotion scope of the smart elderly care model, this research adopted the questionnaire survey method and randomly selected elderly individuals aged over 60 in Ningbo as the survey subjects. Stratified regression was employed for data analysis. The results indicate that: (1) The majority (68.5%) of the elderly have a relatively high acceptance of companion robots, and this trend decreases with age (B = -0.083, p = 0.048); (2) Openness, initiative, family attitude, community assistance, and corporate donations can all significantly and positively predict the acceptance of companion robots by the elderly. (3) Taking companion robots as an example, the smart elderly care industry has a promising development outlook. In the future, it is necessary to boost the construction of smart elderly care in China from two perspectives: precisely positioning user profiles to develop more age-appropriate intelligent machines and integrating "family-community-enterprise" resources to construct an actor network for the smart elderly care model.

KEYWORDS

Silver hair technology, smart ageing, escort robots, Network of actors, elderly

CITE THIS PAPER

Zihan Hong, Jiayi Dong, Lina Zhang, Lin Zhang, Exploration of the promotion path of the smart elderly care model under the background of fewer children in the elderly. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2024) Vol. 8: 16-24. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2024.080703.

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