MINI REVIEW article
Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Health Informatics
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1656624
This article is part of the Research TopicAssistive Technologies in Aging and DisabilityView all 13 articles
Current application and future pathways of smart elderly care services in China
Provisionally accepted
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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The aging problem in China has been more and more severe so that traditional elderly care service models are difficult to meet the growing demands of the elderly population.Smart elderly care, as an emerging service model, integrates artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to provide more personalized, convenient, and safe living services for the elderly. This paper analyzed the applications and development trends of AI in health monitoring and management, smart homes, emotional companionship, and medical services for elderly care and proposed some pathways to foster the healthy development of AI-enabled elderly care services by simplifying technological interfaces, enhancing user experience, strengthening data privacy protections, promoting industry standardization and so on.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, elderly care, Health monitoring and management, Medical service, emotional companionship
Received: 02 Jul 2025; Accepted: 13 Oct 2025.
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* Correspondence: Jie Xue, 19506132096@163.com
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