Research on the Growth Path of the Elderly Care Industry Enabled by Digital Economy
The development of the digital economy has injected new momentum into the growth of the elderly care industry,and intelligent elderly care has become a digital governance model that effectively responds to the aging population and promotes the growth of the elderly care industry.Based on the perspective of configuration,fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method(fsQCA)was adopted,with the growth of the elderly care industry as the result variable and 30 provincial administrative regions on the Chinese mainland as cases,to explore the configuration path of the growth of the elderly care industry enabled by the development of digital economy from three dimensions of the foundation,development and scale of the digital economy,and to provide reference for the digital transformation of the elderly care industry.The research finds that:1)The single element of digital economy does not constitute the necessary condition for the high growth level of the elderly care industry,and the high growth level of the elderly care industry is the result of the synergistic effect of multiple elements of the digital economy.2)"Digital infrastructure"and"digital talent"are the core elements of the development of the elderly care industry,and"digital application","digital transaction"and"digital finance"are more often used as auxiliary conditions to play a role.3)The"digital infrastructure+digital talent"foundation type,"digital talent+digital application"driven type,"digital foundation+scale"driven type,and"digital foundation+development+scale"leading type are four effective growth paths for the elderly care industry.Based on this,countermeasures and suggestions such as giving play to the synergistic effect of factors,strengthening the digital infrastructure and building a digital pension platform are proposed to achieve high-quality growth of the elderly care industry.
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