A Balanced Embedded Elder Care Model: A Case Study on the Family Elderly Care Beds in T Community of Nanjing

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10.2991/assehr.k.200428.002How to use a DOI?

Keywords

elder care service, case study, embeddedness theory

Abstract

Family Elderly Care Beds is an innovative elder care service to cope with the aging population in Nanjing, China. It directly embeds the various modern aging equipment and kinds of service resources into the house, so that the elderly can enjoy professional, personalized and convenient services without leaving their place. Through field investigation, semi-structured interview and other methods, this paper takes the operation mode of Family Elderly Care Beds in T community of Nanjing as an example, aiming to analyse how does this service integrate and embed diverse resources from time dimension, emotional dimension and resource dimension and how to realize the effective balance between supply resources and diversified demands in elder care.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yi WEI
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/01
TI  - A Balanced Embedded Elder Care Model: A Case Study on the Family Elderly Care Beds in T Community of Nanjing
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200428.002
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