Construction and evaluation of China older-adult care service smart supply chain system

Front Public Health. 2023 Nov 24:11:1249155. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1249155. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

Introduction: As the aging of the population continues to deepen, the pressure on social pensions is gradually increasing, and the issue of assistance has become a problem that must be solved. With the development of science and technology, people's living standard is constantly improving. The older-adult care services expected by the older-adult are wider than meeting the basic daily needs of individuals. The current industry should also consider combining modern science and technology with the older-adult care service industry to serve older-adult better and enable older-adult care service providers to move towards the service needs that make people happier and healthier. This research is about constructing and evaluating China's older-adult care services smart supply chain.

Methods: Based on the research results of previous scholars, this paper divides the Sun construction of the smart supply chain of China endowment service into four aspects: policy aspect, economic aspect, social aspect, and technical aspect; the four significant elements are divided into the first-level indicators, and 16 second-level indicators are divided under the first-level indicators. The importance and satisfaction of each evaluation index were obtained by distributing questionnaires to the managers who study the supply chain and the employees who are related to the old-age service.

Results and discussion: After the reliability analysis, the importance-performance analysis (IPA) quadrant analysis chart of the evaluation index was constructed using importance-performance analysis. The index of creating a smart supply chain system for China's old-age service is given priority, the supply chain system of China's old-age care service is further improved, and the social security of China's old-age service is enlarged.

Keywords: China; old-age security; older-adult care services; service demand; smart supply chain.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • China
  • Health Status*
  • Humans
  • Industry*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Socioeconomic Factors

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was funded by the Jinan Philosophy and Social Sciences Project (grant no. JNSK22B33) and the Key R&D Plan of Shandong Province (Soft Science Project; grant no. 2023RZB04034).