Recently, in view of the “digital divide” faced by the elderly, Zhang Yunyong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of the Party committee and general manager of Yunnan Unicom, suggested to gradually improve the aging transformation of the telecommunications industry, strengthen innovation, achieve the goal of smart elderly care, further build a smart and healthy elderly care platform, strengthen policy guidance, popularize communication capacity and consolidate the digital base.
Zhang Yunyong pointed out that the whole society is stepping into the aging stage. Many elderly people encounter many difficulties in daily life such as travel, medical treatment and consumption because they can’t use or skillfully use smart phones and various applications on mobile phones, and can’t fully enjoy the convenience brought by the progress of science and technology.
In this regard, Zhang Yunyong suggested that first, practice social responsibility and gradually improve the aging transformation of the telecommunications industry. Encourage communication operators to actively respond to the call of national policies and play an exemplary role in the aging transformation of telecommunications services. Actively advocate the collaborative support of many manufacturers in the terminal industry and Internet industry, and provide silver haired people with perceptible, warm and more convenient telecom products and services according to the demand characteristics of silver haired people.
Second, coordinate resources from all parties, strengthen innovation and achieve the goal of intelligent elderly care. It is suggested to encourage telecom operators, as the main force in the construction of smart society, to cooperate with the industrial chain and cooperate with various resources to jointly promote the integration and innovation of the advantages of digital technology networking, platform and intelligence and the application scenarios of helping the elderly, and take medical treatment, health and nursing as the starting point to provide large-scale universal services for abnormal behavior monitoring, fall protection, one click call for help Scene based applications such as real-time health monitoring; Based on this, we will further build a smart health and elderly care platform, organically integrate the health care, emergency help, living consumption, emotional companionship, spiritual entertainment and other services of silver haired people, and build a new Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) integrated smart health and elderly care ecosystem through cross-border cooperation with community, hospitals, restaurants, pharmacies and other resources, Provide users with one-stop high-quality elderly care services of “food, medicine, health, care and music”.
Third, strengthen policy guidance, popularize communication capacity and consolidate the digital base. It is suggested that the popularization of basic communication ability for the elderly should be added to the national pension policy as an inclusive service, and silver haired people should better enjoy intelligent and healthy pension services through appropriate guidance or subsidies.
