中国的养老服务起步于2008年，经历了萌芽期、初创期、发展期和普及期四个发展阶段。与西方国家相比，中国智慧养老服务的政策重点和发展特征有所不同，它更多体现为一种政策驱动而非技术或需求驱动的结果，并同时兼具公共产品和私人产品的双重属性。中国智能养老服务的这些特征不仅成为其快速发展的动力，也给其带来了需求不足、发展无序、公共和私人资源浪费等诸多挑战。为应对这些挑战，中国需尽快制定养老服务的技术标准，并将现有的公共和私人智能家居养老平台进行整合。

Title: Smart home for elderly care: development and challenges in China

Source：BMC Geriatrics (中科院SSCI二区)

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: Smart home, Elderly care, China

Funding：The research was supported by the Social science planning project of Shandong province, PR China (16CQXJ07).

Doi：10.1186/s12877-020-01737-y

Research Domain：Gerontology (JCR- Q1)

Cite this article：Zhang, Q., Li, M. & Wu, Y. Smart home for elderly care: development and challenges in China. BMC Geriatrics 20, 318 (2020).

Link：https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-020-01737-y