Status quo,hot spots and prospects of domestic smart elderly care research:A visual analysis based on core journal database of CNKI
Objective To analyze the research hot spots and development trends in the field of smart eld-erly care in China,and to provide reference for further research.Methods Co-word analysis and social network analysis were carried out by Bicomb,Ucinet and SPSS Statistics software to analyze 290 literature on smart elderly care published and included by China National Knowledge Network(CNKI)from the establishment year of core journal database to the end of 2022.Results In recent years,the number of annual publications of smart elderly care research in China showed an overall rising trend.The research content mainly involved the application of in-telligent technology,home care mechanism,the promotion of smart health care and institutional intelligent elderly care,and the digital divide of the elderly.The hot spots were elderly care services,intelligent age,intelligent technology,combination of medical care and old-age care and home care.Conclusions Future researches should focus more on the upgrading of product technology and the application of specific functions.Empirical researches and evaluation research findings are to be enriched on the basis of survey innovation.