Transforming Aging into Enjoying Aging--Designing Pathways for Smart Community Eldercare

This paper explores the development path design for the intelligent transformation of community-based public facilities for elderly care, aiming to address the challenges of passive aging and promote the vision of enjoyable aging. The research is grounded in Chinas aging population trend, the challenges faced by domestic community elderly care, and the transformative potential of smart technologies. Through literature review and case analysis, this study examines the core definition, classification, and domestic status of smart community elderly care facilities. It identifies key pathways for intelligent transformation, including demand-side adaptation, collaborative supply mechanisms, and quality enhancement through whole process supervision. The findings suggest that smart elderly care communities, by integrating technological empowerment with humanistic concern, can significantly improve health management efficiency, reduce the occurrence of accidents, and help preserve the autonomy of the elderly. However, challenges remain, such as insufficient age-friendly technology design, fragmented service coordination, lack of standardized systems, and limited public health data sharing. This study provides insights and references for the construction of smart elderly care communities, offering a technical foundation for the shift from experience-driven to data-driven services and achieving precision governance in elderly care.