The global population is aging. The number and proportion of the elderly population are increasing in almost every country in the world.
UN: The world’s population is aging, and Social protection should be reconsidered.
In 2021, there were 761 million people aged 65 and older worldwide, and this number will increase to 1.6 billion by 2050. The population aged 80 and over is growing even faster.
People are living longer as a result of improved health and medical care, increased access to education and lower fertility rates.
Globally, a baby born in 2021 can expect to live to 71 on average, with women outliving men. That’s nearly 25 years longer than a baby born in 1950.
North Africa, West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are expected to experience the fastest growth in the number of older people over the next 30 years. Today, Europe and North America combined have the highest proportion of elderly people.
Population ageing has the potential to be one of the most important social trends of the 21st century, affecting almost all areas of society, including Labour and financial markets, demand for goods and services such as housing, transport and social security, family structure and intergenerational relationships.
Older persons are increasingly seen as contributors to development and their ability to take action to improve the situation of themselves and their communities should be integrated into policies and programmes at all levels. In the coming decades, many countries are likely to face financial and political pressures related to public health systems, pensions and social protection in order to accommodate a growing elderly population.
The trend of an aging population
The global population aged 65 and over is growing faster than younger groups.
According to the World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision, by 2050, one in every six people in the world will be aged 65 years or older (16%), up from 11 (9%) in 2019; By 2050, one in four people in Europe and North America will be 65 or older. In 2018, the number of people aged 65 or over in the world surpassed the number of people under five for the first time ever. In addition, the number of people aged 80 or over is expected to triple from 143 million in 2019 to 426 million in 2050.
Under the severe contradiction between supply and demand, the intelligent elderly care industry with AI and big data as the underlying technology rises suddenly. Intelligent elderly care provides visual, efficient and professional elderly care services through intelligent sensors and information platforms, with families, communities and institutions as the basic unit, supplemented by intelligent hardware and software.
It is an ideal solution to make more use of limited talents and resources through technology enabling.
The Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, intelligent hardware and other new generation of information technology and products, make it possible for individuals, families, communities, institutions and health care resources to effectively connect and optimize the allocation, boosting the upgrading of the pension model. In fact, many technologies or products have already been put into the elderly market, and many children have equipped the elderly with “wearable device-based smart pension” devices, such as bracelets, to meet the needs of the elderly.
Shenzhen Zuowei Technology Co., LTD. To create intelligent incontinence cleaning robot for the disabled and incontinence group. It through sensing and sucking out, warm water washing, warm air drying, sterilization and deodorization four functions to achieve disabled personnel automatic cleaning of urine and feces. Since the product came out, it has greatly reduced the nursing difficulties of caregivers, and also brought comfortable and relaxed experience to disabled people, and gained many praises.
The intervention of intelligent pension concept and intelligent devices will undoubtedly make the future pension model become diversified, humanized and efficient, and effectively solve the social problem of “providing for the elderly and supporting them”.
Post time: Mar-27-2023
