According to United Nations statistics, the global population aged 65 and over will be 760 million in 2021, and this number will increase to 1.6 billion by 2050. The social burden of elderly care is heavy and there is a large demand for elderly care workers
Relevant data shows that there are about 44 million disabled and semi-disabled elderly people in china. According to the international standard of 3:1 allocation between disabled elderly people and caregivers, at least 14 million caregivers are needed. However, at present, the total number of service personnel in various elderly care service institutions is less than 0.5million, and the number of certified personnel is less than 20,000. There is a huge gap in nursing staff for the disabled and semi-disabled elderly population alone. However, the age of employees in front-line elderly care institutions is generally higher. Staff aged 45 to 65 years old are the main body of the elderly care service team. There are problems such as overall low educational level and low professional quality. At the same time, due to problems such as high labor intensity, poor wages, and narrow promotion space, the elderly care industry is unattractive to young people, and the "nursing worker shortage" problem has become increasingly prominent.
In reality, many college graduates and nursing professionals do not consider careers related to elderly care at all when choosing a career, or they work with the mentality of "temporary position" or "transitional job". They will "change jobs"once other suitable positions are available, resulting in high mobility of nursing and other service personnel, and extremely unstable professional teams. Faced with the embarrassing situation that young people are unwilling to work and there is a large "vacancy" in nursing homes, government departments should not only increase publicity and education, but also introduce a series of policies to encourage and guide them, so as to change young people's traditional career selection concepts; at the same time, they should by improving the social status of elderly care practitioners and gradually increasing the level of wages and benefits can we attract young people and high-quality talents to join the ranks of elderly care and related industries
On the other side, a professional job training system for elderly care service practitioners should be established as soon as possible at the national level, the formulation of medium- and long-term plans for the construction of a professional talent team for elderly care services should be accelerated, and colleges and universities and secondary vocational schools should be supported to add majors and courses related to elderly care services and management. Vigorously cultivate high-quality talents in professional elderly care and related industries. In addition, create a good social environment for innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of elderly care, increase the modernization of elderly care equipment and facilities, and change the traditional method of relying entirely on manual care.
All in all, the elderly care industry should keep pace with the times, make full use of modern technology, equipment and facilities, and make elderly care a decent job with high technical content and high income.When elderly care is no longer synonymous with "dirty work" and its income and benefits are relatively better than other professions, more and more young people will be attracted to engage in elderly care work, and the "nursing worker shortage" problem will naturally arise disappeared.
With the rise and maturity of artificial intelligence technology, the huge market potential has given rise to the vigorous development of nursing robots in the field of elderly health. In order to effectively solve the urgent care needs of disabled elderly people through intelligent equipment, use technology to liberate manpower and relieve the heavy nursing burden. solution.
For disabled elderly people who are bedridden all year round, defecation has always been a big problem.Manual processing often requires steps such as opening the toilet, inducing defecation, turning over, tidying up, and cleaning, which takes more than half an hour. Moreover, for some elderly people who are conscious and physically disabled, their privacy is not respected. As a technology research and development design, The smart nursing robot can automatically sense urine and feces - negative pressure suction - warm water cleaning - warm air drying. The entire process does not come into contact with dirt, making care clean and easy, greatly improving nursing efficiency and maintaining the dignity of the elderly.
Elderly people who are bedridden for a long time can also use intelligent walking robots to change from a sitting position to a standing position. They can stand up at any time and exercise without the help of others to achieve self-prevention and reduce or avoid muscle atrophy, bedsores, and bed sores caused by long-term bedridden. Decreased physical function and the probability of other skin infections, improving quality of life,
In addition, there are also a series of intelligent nursing assistive products such as portable bathing machines to solve bathing problems for bedridden elderly people, multifunctional lifts to assist the elderly in getting in and out of bed, and smart alarm diapers to prevent bedsores and skin ulcers caused by long-term bed rest. Bedridden elderly, relieve the pressure of elderly care!
Post time: Jan-29-2024
