Artificial intelligence empowering home-based elderly care: Models, dilemmas, and pathways—An analysis based on the "technology-scenario-governance" framework
Yujin Yan
School of Business Administration, University of Science and Technology Liaoning
Hong Liu
School of Business Administration, University of Science and Technology Liaoning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59429/bam.v8i1.13635
Keywords: artificial intelligence; home-based elderly care; scenario governance; model innovation; smart elderly care
Abstract
The deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and home-based elderly care represents a critical pathway for actively addressing population aging. This study constructs a three-dimensional analytical framework of "Technology-Scenario-Governance" (TSG) to systematically investigate the model innovation, practical dilemmas, and implementation pathways of AI-empowered home-based elderly care. The findings reveal that AI-empowered home-based elderly care has evolved into three distinct models: technology empowerment, scenario integration, and governance collaboration. In practice, the field faces technology-dimension dilemmas including insufficient technology adaptation, digital divide, and ethical risks; scenario-dimension dilemmas including demand identification deviation, scenario embedding difficulties, and service suspension; and governance-dimension dilemmas including subject coordination challenges, resource allocation imbalance, and regulatory absence. The root causes of these dilemmas lie in the tension between technical logic and humanistic logic, the conflict between efficiency orientation and fairness orientation, and the imbalance between instrumental rationality and value rationality. This paper proposes collaborative implementation strategies encompassing technology pathways, scenario pathways, and governance pathways.
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