Ageing and Welfare Technology: Policy, Practice and Business in South Korea
Abstract
Participants: Soo Wan Kim (KOREA), Jung-won Lim (KOREA), YoungHee Ro (KOREA).
ISSUE The purpose of this study is to analyze the current status and issues of technology-based care services on policy and practice in public-private partnerships funded by government. Discussions to prepare a new industry leading by private sectors on ageing and welfare technology and business strategies especially for SMEs are needed to provide high value-added services as well as to develop an industrial ecosystem in the future.
CONTENT Our symposium presents two case studies on community-based technology dissemination funded by Korean government to suggest implications for policy, practice in public-private partnerships and future welfare technology service development. Discussions for the industry’s perspectives on private corporate cooperation strategies and data-driven service design strategies for enhancement of the digitized therapeutic solutions are presented.
STRUCTURE Dr. Soo Wan Kim discusses government-led care services for older adults using technology in community: current trends, issues, and implications. The survey on welfare services using ICT in 2022 showed that 17 metropolitan and 228 local governments nationwide, almost half of the local governments, are providing welfare technology services in the form of public-private cooperation. It revealed that innovativeness of the welfare technology service depends on how it is planned and operated in response to the various challenges of the local community. Dr. Jung-won Lim presents safety and care service issues based on life data and IoT technologies for older adults living alone. A non-randomized pretest-posttest control group of 50 years or older living alone was tested in three ways: 1) receive services based on IoT sensors, 2) telephone monitoring systems installed at home, 3) both 1) and 2) to serve as a Living Lab. Dr. YoungHee Ro introduces service design strategies for developing an welfare technology ecosystem especially for SMEs. The strategies are 1) to cooperate among SMEs to provide holistic care for individuals, 2) to transform “Needs” to “Wants” based upon “consumer decision making behaviors” to create data-driven business models, 3) to suggest rules and standardized index for designing services in ageing and welfare technology industry
CONCLUSION It is critical to develop data-driven ageing and welfare solutions and strategies to create an industry ecosystem in this aging society. The case studies funded by government implicate how to operate community-based care services and define roles for each stakeholders. Providing individual care service is the goal for applying geron-tech and data-driven service design, and it must be planned ahead strategically.
Keywords: ageing, welfare, government-led care service, public-private partnerships, living alone, data-driven,
service design strategies, industrial ecosystem
Address: Institute of Future Welfare Convergence, Kangnam University, Republic of Korea
Email: ceodrro@kangnam.ac.kr
Keywords: ageing, welfare, government-led care service, public-private partnerships, living alone, data-driven,
service design strategies, industrial ecosystem
Address: Institute of Future Welfare Convergence, Kangnam University, Republic of Korea
Email: ceodrro@kangnam.ac.kr
Acknowledgement Dr. Soo Wan Kim was Korea Social Security Information Service 2022-01; Dr. Jung-won Lim was supported by Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation and SK Telecome. Dr. YoungHee Ro was supported by Global SMEs Business Council(GSBC) funded by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Technology(KEIT) and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy(MOTIE) in the Republic of Korea (Grant #: 2020-370).
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