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Information Technologies And Elderly Care In China: A New Paradigm, Hailong Zhu, C E Tapie Rohm, Jake Zhu, Frank Lin
Information Technologies And Elderly Care In China: A New Paradigm, Hailong Zhu, C E Tapie Rohm, Jake Zhu, Frank Lin
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China’s aged population has increased dramatically. Because of the one child policy, China now has fewer and fewer children able to support the elderly. The care of China’s elderly is a huge challenge which requires the exploration of all kinds of elderly care models through intelligence and information management technology advances. With the evolving field of Information Management and with the development of newer and cheaper technology, the time has come for a paradigm shift to be explored. A shift in the way China is managing its technology and culture expectations is necessary to address this unique need. This paper …