How smart city supports the travel of elderly care communities
As aging society is inevitable, it is necessary to seek a reasonable elderly care model to face this problem. One of the solution is the construction of elderly care community. This study aims at exploring the ways to improve the services of elderly care community under the background of rapid developing Smart City technologies. Through interview and questionnaire, this paper gets the basic information and data about the present situation of elderly care services including demands, satisfaction and so on. By analyzing the data, the phenomenon is found that except for taking part in outdoor activities with the purpose of entertainment or exercise, the elderly tend to reduce travels within the community appropriately. In addition, it is found the elderly want to get more travel service with appropriate price to make life more convenient. According to these investigation results, this paper provides some methods based on Smart City technology to improve the travel status of elderly, like using the intelligence platform to improve quality of travel related services in the elderly care community, which can be a reference for the construction of the future elderly care community.
2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)